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Standing Army Fear and Negro Suffrage Debate in Politics
Public speech warns against a large standing army funded by taxes and questions the push for black suffrage. It contrasts Northern Radical policies with Southern outcomes, denounces Freedmen's Bureau influence, and attacks Chicago platform on equal rights for blacks while disenfranchising white voters in Reconstruction-era Southern states.
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General Grant
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Welch
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Freedmen’s Bureau
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