They are occasionally this blatant...

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"The gentleman wants all the colored population of Ohio to have a vote .Now he had one radical objection to it. It was this: Every negro in Ohio is a Whig and if he is allowed to vote, the Whigs will get a great accession of strength. The Whigs have too many voters now, for the good of the country. He believed that if the Union is to be perpetuated, it is to be through the perpetuation of democratic principles, and he did not to put in the hands of the enemies of a republican form of government, the means to overthrow it."

Sawyer, Ohio constitutional convention, 1851. Report of the Debates and Proceedings, Vol. 2, p.637