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Letter recounts Z M Stephens defense of 1874 Bruce vote
A Mississippi letter from Z M Stephens defends voting for B K Bruce in 1874, blasting editorial claims and detailing wartime and Reconstruction actions. The lengthy piece discusses carpetbaggers, Confederate soldiers, Ames and Pease, and Stephens’s political record, urging publication and response.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Z. M. Stephens
New Albany
Miss
Jas. K. Vardaman
Jackson
B. K. Bruce
U. S. Senate
Stephens
United States
Hubert D. Stephens
Clarion
Major E. Barksdale
Col
J. L. Power
Senate
Bruce
J. S. McNeily
Vicksburg
Mississippi
Democratic Party
Beling
Ames
Alcorn
Alcorn S
Corn
Pontotoc
Union
Lamar
Congress
Benton
Marshall
Tippah
J. W. C Watson
McLaurin
Excent
Ers
Hinds
Leflore
Hubert DD. Stephens
United States Senate
Mr. Stephens
Major Barksdale
Colonel Power
Southland
House Journal
Randolph
Street
Robert Lowry
Messrs
Atkins
Akers
Archer
Byrd
Pearl
Boyd
Attala
Cook
Champlin
Campbell
Crecelius
Deval
Denson
Eckford
Gilmer
Garrett
Greer
Graham
Horton
Calhoun
Leggett
Martin
Packwood
Reese
Spight
Stockstill
Stubbs
Thames
Thompson
Choctaw
Bob Lowry
E. C. Walthall
L. Q. C. Lamar
Shadd
House of Representatives
Adelbert Ames
H. R. Pease
Connecticut
H. M Street
Pease
Applewhite
John Smith
A. K. Davis
Attla
J. A. P. Campbell
E. S. Fisher
H. M. Street
Green
Rogers
Yalobusha
Smith
Jasper
Louisiana
New Orleans
Publican
Congress of the
United States Army
Georgia
Savannah
Robert E. Lee
Joseph E. Johnston
Fifty-Fourth
Johnston
Atlanta
South
Associated Press
Ku Klux
White League
Reublican Party
Plymouth Rock
the James
Ohio
Thurman
National Capitol
Hinds and
LeVlore