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Excerpt from Governor Chamberlain's Administration in South Carolina: A Chapter of Reconstruction in the Southern States
It is not necessary to reconcile con¿icting theories. What is plain is that Reconstruction as it proceeded under the Acts of Congress, involved the most serious consequences to all the peo ple of the South. It involved directly a question never before put to the test, - the effect of granting the suffrage at one stroke to nearly negroes, who were, in all senses of the word.
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