Congress committee exposes Ku Klux villainy in deep South crimes
A long congressional inquiry presents an exhaustive list of Ku Klux Klan activities across the late Insurrectionary States. Documents beget a chilling portrait of midnight raids, arson, floggings, and murders aimed at suppressing Republican votes and elevating the Democratic Party.
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Congressional
Washington
South Carolina
Hidera
Congress
Confederate Congress
Democratic Party
Ku-Klux
South
Tennessee
Republican
Democratic ‘Party
Ku- Klux
Illinois Republicans Call for State Convention 1871
The Illinois Republican State Central Committee invites voters to elect delegates to the Republican State Convention in Springfield on September 20, 1871 at noon. Delegates allotted by 1868 presidential vote, one per 500 votes and one per fraction of 200. The notice includes county delegation counts and urges timely nominations and appointments, signed A Bancock, Chairman. A racial riot report follows describing white mobs and black casualties with inflammatory language.
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Illinois
Ihan
Republican Union
Central
Chicago
Springfeld
Congress
Stephenson
Eniror
State Central Committee
Republican State Central Committee
Republican Central Committee meeting urged in county
The piece calls for a full county Republican Central Committee meeting and notes political maneuverings for Illinois at large. It discusses cholera movements from Russia to France and England, the Westfield steamer disaster, and opinions on potential candidates like Oglesby and Contom. It also critiques French Thiers leadership and New York Democratic corruption linked to the New York Times.
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Russia
France
England
Organize Republican effort in Illinois to win every vote
Call to action urging every Illinois Republican to organize doors and neighbor outreach. Promote distributing Republican newspapers, persuading doubtful voters, and sending own paper to those unwilling to subscribe. Emphasize continuing campaign until an overwhelming majority is achieved.
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Illinois
New Departure Claim Shifts Guilt Across Parties
A partisan tirade argues Democrats must own the Civil War record and debts while praising Republicans for loyalty and victory. It cites the Freeport Bulletin and a Washington despatch on pension fraud, urging action against claim agents.
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Weshington
D. C
Pension Bureau
Commidatotoy Baker
Secret Service
Pension
Tates
Republican Party
Radial ‘Party
Freeport Bulletin
Lincoln
Journal editor attacks Atkins over Ku Klux question
The piece condemns Atkins for siding with radical suppression of voters and defending Ku Klux methods. It accuses Northern editors of doing dirty work and praises Joan A. Loaas for linking her name with opposition to the Ku Klux. It portrays Democrats in the South as using terror to influence elections and urges honest resistance to such acts.
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Atkins
Logan
South
Budletin
Ku Klux
Joan A. Loaas
Loaay
North Carolina GOP Triumph Defeats Constitutional Convention
North Carolina voters rejected the Ku Klux Democracy plan for a Constitutional Convention and gave Republicans a ten thousand vote majority. The piece asserts North Carolina leans Republican and condemns the Ku Klux faction, claiming no future Democratic wins there.
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North Carolina
Curtis Attacks and New York Riot Politics
AHatful of criticism targets George William Curtis and Harper's Weekly as liars over New York riots. The piece argues government officials instigated the riot, condemns Irish Democrats and Hoffman, and claims the Democratic Party bears responsibility for the unrest and conflicts within its ticket.
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George William Curtis
Harper's Weekly
New York
Curtis
Hoffman
Mr Buster Opposes Free Schools and Education Policy
The speaker labels Mr Buster as an opponent of free schools by principle and argues Republicans established free schools while Democratic rule harmed education, citing Kentucky history where teaching literacy by enslaved or Black people faced criminal penalties. The piece contrasts Democratic states with Republican governance on schooling and education.
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Mr. Buster
Kentucky
Buster
Potomac
Ohio
Delaware
Senator Yates Accepts Fifty Lectures Offer
Ex Senator Richard Yates has accepted The American Literary Bureau of New York offer for fifty lectures. The sum is ten thousand dollars to be paid for delivery to the principal cities of the United States during the coming fall and winter.
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Jacksonville
Richard Yates
American Literary Bureau
New York
United States
West Point Sunday School Convention at Lena Church
West Point Sunday School Convention will be held at the M. E. Church in Lena on Sunday August 20 beginning at 10:86 o clock. All SS workers in the Township are invited, supers are asked to report on their schools. Representatives from Freeport and elsewhere will attend and take part. M G Shephex Vice President Township SS Convention.
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West Point
M. E. Church
Lena
S. S
Freeport
North Carolina Convention Defeated by 10 000 Majority
Special dispatches report North Carolina voters rejected the constitutional convention by about 10,000 to 15,000. Wake County Raleigh shows Republican gain of 200, Halifax 100, Mengstenburg 275, News Hanover notes conventionists admit defeat. Ex Governor Holden in Washington notes confidence in the defeat.
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New York
Tribune
Josefn OC. Astorr
Wilmington
N.C
N. Y. Tribune
Washington
North Carolina
Wake’ County
Raleigh
Halifax County
Mengstenburg
Interesting correspondence with railroad and state commissioners
A Springfield session of the Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners heard a delegation of railroadsmen seek an agreed case for court action. The officials asked for a written statement, noting the companies deny the board’s authority to impose extra duties yet express willingness to furnish information by proper means.
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Comissionens
Angus
Illinois
Gustavus Koerseh
Ricrard P. Moavas
Davin S, Hawson
State Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners
Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners
Springfield
Gustavus Koerner
Board of Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners
Ste
Opposition Parties Rally Against Tammany Jat
Opinion text notes growing opposition groups forming against Tammany Jat with Know Nothings and Young Democrats gaining members. References to July 12 turnout, Custom House talks, Times criticism, canvasser duties, and a polarized climate described amid factional activity.
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Thousan
Know
Nothing Lodges
Te Young Democracy
Betwe Custom House
Times
Tn Fack
Finne Stone
Anton
Justice
Gartain
Nernich
Aaldtraul
New
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