Whitelaw Reid: “Nobody could stand up in the State who should advocate promiscuous…”

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Nobody could stand up in the State who should advocate promiscuous negro suffrage.

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Whitelaw Reid

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Reid asserts that advocating for unrestricted voting rights for African Americans would be politically untenable in the state.

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Whitelaw Reid: “Nobody could stand up in the State who should advocate promiscuous negro suffrage.”