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In a secret ballot, where every man could have voted according to his own convictions and desires, the Secession scheme would have been defeated in Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, and Arkansas.
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Blaine suggests that a secret ballot could have thwarted the Secession movement in several Southern states.
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