He lived to vote for that grand act of enfranchisement that wiped from the escutcheon of the nation the leprous stain of slavery, and to know that the Constitution of the United States no longer recognized and protected property in man.
Creswell celebrates the historic moment of enfranchisement and the abolition of slavery in America.
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