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For himself, he should make no special objection to negro suffrage as one of the terms of reorganization, and if it came, he did not think the South would have much cause to regret it.
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Whitelaw Reid
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Reid expresses a personal openness to the idea of negro suffrage as part of the South's reorganization.
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