I felt, and so declared, that these mean crimes were infinitely more despicable than the violence in the south, which sprang from a fear of the southern people that their institutions would be impaired by the votes of men debased by slavery and ignorance.
Sherman expresses his strong condemnation of electoral fraud, comparing it to the violence stemming from racial tensions in the South.
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