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George F. Hoar: “So the whole Republican Party of the North came to be united in the belief that there could be no security for the…”

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So the whole Republican Party of the North came to be united in the belief that there could be no security for the liberty of the freedman without the ballot.
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George F. Hoar
Massachusetts

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Hoar asserts that the Republican Party united around the belief that voting rights were essential for the freedom of former slaves.

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