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He urged that the policy of negro suffrage would give the lie to all the arguments that had ever been employed against slavery as degrading and brutalizing to its victims.
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gutenberg.orgGeorge Julian: “He urged that the policy of negro suffrage would give the lie to all the arguments that had ever been employed against…”
Editor's note · Context
Julian critiques the hypocrisy of opposing slavery while denying suffrage to African Americans.
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