oct 3, 1865 - Interview with George L. Stearns. Discusses restoring Southern states to Congress, and the issue of negro voting rights “The negro with vote with the late master whom he does not hate, rather than with the non-slaveholding white, whom he does hate. Universal suffrage would create another war, not against us, but a war of races.”
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oct 3, 1865
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