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Again the advocates of universal suffrage favoured the proposition, and the friends of a freehold qualification opposed it; but this time the convention decided against the negro, thirty-three to seventy-one.
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This statement reflects the outcome of a vote on the rights of negro voters during the convention, illustrating the prevailing attitudes of the time.
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