If the criminal classes can deprive a colored man or a white Republican of his right to vote, as soon as they have accomplished it, then these rascals--because every man who resorts to this policy is a rascal --then these rascals will soon undermine their own party.
Sherman warns against the dangers of voter suppression, labeling those who engage in it as 'rascals'.
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