Rep. Fernando Wood (Dem-NY): I’ve asked you a
question, Mr. Stevens, and you must answer me. Do you or do you not hold that
the precept that “All men are created equal” is meant literally? Is that not
the true purpose of the [13th] [A]mendment? To promote your ultimate and ardent
dream to elevate ...
Rep. Thaddeus Stevens (Repub.-PA): The true purpose of
the amendment, Mr. Wood, you perfectly named, brainless obstructive object ...
Rep. Wood: Now you have always insisted, Mr.
Stevens, that Negroes are the same as white men are.
Rep. Stevens: The true purpose of the amendment ...
I don’t hold with equality in all things, only with equality before the law. Nothing
more.
Rep. Wood: That’s ... That’s not so. You believe
that Negroes are entirely equal to white men. You’ve said it a thousand times!
Rep. George Pendleton (Dem-Ohio): For shame! For
shame! Stop prevaricating and answer Representative Wood!
Rep. Stevens: I don’t hold with equality in all
things, only with equality before the law.
Rep. Pendleton: After the decades of fervent
advocacy ...
Rep. Ashley (Repub.-Ohio): He’s answered
your questions! This amendment’s not to do with race equality.
Rep. Stevens:
I don’t hold with equality in all things, only with equality before the
law, and nothing more!
Mrs. Lincoln: Who’d ever have guessed that old
nightmare capable of such control? He might make a politician someday.
Mrs. Keckley: I need to go.
Rep. Pendleton: Your frantic attempt to delude us
now is unworthy of a Representative. It is, in fact, unworthy of a white man!
Rep. Stevens: How can I hold that all men are
created equal when here before me stands, stinking, the moral carcass of the
gentleman from Ohio, proof that some men are inferior, endowed by their Maker
with dim wits, impermeable to reason, with cold, pallid slime in their veins instead
of hot, red blood! You are more reptile than man, George! So low and flat that
the foot of man is incapable of crushing you.
Rep. Pendleton: How dare you?
Rep. Stevens: Yet even you, Pendleton, who should
have been gibbeted for treason long before today. Even worthless, unworthy you ought
to be treated equally before the law! And so again, sir, again and again and
again I say, I do not hold with equality in all things, only with equality
before the law.
Seth Barrett Tillman, Thaddeus Stevens Remembered, New Reform Club (May 19, 2019, 7:45 AM), <https://reformclub.blogspot.com/2019/05/thaddeus-stevens-remembered.html>.
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