There is no crime that is meaner, there is no crime that is so destructive to society, there is no crime so prejudicial to the man who commits it as the crime of preventing a citizen from participating in the government.
Sherman condemns the act of preventing citizens from voting as a severe crime against society.
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Some of you broke down the only political organization that could compete with us, and thus gave us an easy victory.
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