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Union Party Speech Praises Colored Soldiers and Suffrage
The speech from Gen E. B. Hayes at Lebanon Ohio defends impartial suffrage for colored citizens, recounts their wartime service, citizenship, and taxes, and argues the Union party supports Reconstruction, education, and equal rights against Democratic opposition. It credits Lincoln, Grant, and loyal Republicans for enforcing civil rights and warns against white supremacist resistance in the South and Ohio.
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