The lawyer, on the other hand, insisted that none would revolt, with more loathing, from the bare idea of negro suffrage, than the best Union men in the State, who had suffered the most for their devotion to the Government and opposition to the war.
The lawyer's perspective underscores the deep-seated resistance to negro suffrage among Union supporters in North Carolina.
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