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They will do all in their power to resist Negro Suffrage, to reduce taxation and expenditures, and would attack the national debt, if they saw any reason to believe repudiation possible.
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This statement outlines the Southern resistance to Negro Suffrage and their economic concerns post-Civil War.
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