The majority of Republicans seemed to prefer that voters by the thousand should be deprived by violence of the right of suffrage, rather than that their rights should be protected by even the semblance of National authority present in the person of a soldier.
Blaine argues that many Republicans preferred to let voters be disenfranchised rather than allow military protection at polls.
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Their pirates burned your unarmed commerce upon every sea.
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