"The Republican Party is strong enough to dare to do right and cannot afford to shirk a duty. The colored men North and South were loyal to the Government in the days of its greatest peril. There was not a rebel or a traitor to be found among them. They ask the privilege of citizenship now that slavery has been forever banished from our country. Why should the great freedom-loving State of Iowa longer deny them this right? No one reason can be given that has not been used to bolster up slavery for the last hundred years. The war that has just closed has swept that relic of barbarism from our land; let the Republican Party have the courage to do justice...I have no fear of the result in a contest of this kind. We shall carry the election and have the satisfaction of wiping out the last vestige of the black code that has long been a disgrace to our State."
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Businesspeople from the United StatesMembers of the United States House of RepresentativesRepublican Party (United States) politiciansPeople from PennsylvaniaPoliticians from Iowa
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As quoted in History of Iowa from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century (1903), by Benjamin F. Gue, Volume III, Chapter 1
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Hiram Price
Hiram Price (10 January 1814 – 30 May 1901) was a nineteenth-century American banker, merchant, bookkeeper, bank president, railroad president, and five-term Republican congressman from Iowa's 2nd congressional district.
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