Equal suffrage was still regarded however rather as an expedient of security against disloyalty than as a measure of National right, rather as an incident to the power of re-organizing rebellious communities than as a subject of National jurisdiction for all the States.
Blaine reflects on the perception of equal suffrage as a security measure rather than a fundamental right during the Reconstruction era.
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