Moreover, a concession of the elective franchise to the freedmen by act of the President of the United States must have been extended to all colored men, wherever found, and so must have established a change of suffrage in the Northern, Middle, and Western States, not less than in the Southern and Southwestern.
He argues that extending voting rights to freedmen would necessitate a broader change in suffrage across all states.
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