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  • Being desirous of allaying the dissensions of party strife now existing within our realm, I do hereby dissolve and abolish the Democratic and Republican parties, and also do hereby decree the disfranchisement and imprisonment, for not more than 10, nor less than five, years, to all persons leading to any violation of this our imperial decree.

    "Imperial Decree" dated 12th Day of August 1869, published in The San Francisco Herald, August 13, 1869.
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