...belief in negro suffrage. Avery of Tennessee cited one of his speeches made in 184£ when he had said, "I regard, therefore, the exclusion of the colored...body from the elective franchise as incompatible with 8. true Democratic principles« Sherman denied the identity of the Republican Party with the Abolition...

...calling the situation "wrong in principle, and demoralizing in tendency." Most especially he charged that "the exclusion of the colored people as a body from the elective franchise [is] incompatible with true democratic principles." 64 Such an endorsement of suffrage and other rights...

...color of the skin, or the place of nativity, or any other similar circumstance of condition;" and that "The exclusion of the colored people, as a body, from the elective franchise is incompatible with true democratic principles. "I congratulate you on the fact that these principles...