Disfrancisement Talk and Early Suffrage History
The piece outlines presidential proclamations on draft resistance and election rights, cites Gen. Garfield on historical suffrage for Black citizens, reviews constitutional and legislative history from 1789 to 1834, noting South Carolina's white-only suffrage, Missouri territorial acts, and the spread of color-based restrictions in several states, with examples from Maryland North Carolina Tennessee and others.
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Garfield
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Ennior
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Connecticut
New England
Maryland
Juvenessee
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