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There they were just as vehement in their protestations against negro suffrage, but they ended in entreaties that the conquerors would spare the infliction of such disgrace.
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Whitelaw Reid
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Editor's note · Context
Reid describes a shift in attitudes towards Black suffrage among certain groups after the war.
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