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It was a mere stroke of expediency to escape the prejudices which negro suffrage would encounter in a majority of the loyal States, and especially in Indiana and California, where a close vote was anticipated.
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Blaine argues that the reluctance to support negro suffrage in certain states was a political maneuver rather than a principled stance.
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The two schools in short marked the dividing line between the radical and the conservative.
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