On the record
It has never deprived any class of people, for any cause, of the elective franchise.
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gutenberg.orgJohn Sherman: “It has never deprived any class of people, for any cause, of the elective franchise.”
Editor's note · Context
Sherman argues that the Republican party has never taken away voting rights from any group.
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During forty years of public life, though many able men have aspired to the office I hold, the people of Ohio, through their general assembly, have preferred me to represent them.
Proud of Ohio, of its history and people, willing at all times to sound its praise in the sisterhood of states, yet, according to my convictions, the United States is entitled to my allegiance, and all parts of it should receive equal care…
Though my grateful thanks are due to them and have been often expressed, yet I have felt, as they do, that my duty was to the whole country.
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