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Not content with voting they made false returns of votes never cast, and excluded legal voters because they were "Abolitionists.
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Sherman criticizes the manipulation of voting processes that disenfranchised legal voters during a contentious period in American history.
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Our family of states is already large enough to create embarrassment in the Senate, and a republic should not hold dependent provinces or possessions.
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