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- Collection: Postwar North Carolina
"Cartoons Are For All," Raleigh News and Observer, June 14, 1900
In a speech in Lexington last Saturday, so we are informed, State Chairman Holton, of the Republican committee, paid his respects to the editor of the News and Observer, and said that he had to teach his Democratic subscribers by means of cartoons…
Tags: Race relations, State Government, Suffrage
"Chairman F.M. Simmons Issues a Patriotic and Able Address, Summing Up the Issues, and Appealing Elo- Quently to the White Voters To Redeem the State" Raleigh News and Observer, November 3, 1898
Chairman F.M. Simmons
Issues a Patriotic and Able Address, Summing
Up the Issues, and Appealing Elo-
Quently to the White Voters
To Redeem the State
TO THE VOTERS OF NORTH CAROLINA:
The most memorable campaign ever waged in North Carolina…
Tags: State Politics
"Chairman F.M. Simmons' Speech," Raleigh News and Observer, April 12, 1900
On calling the Democratic State convention to order Chairman Simmons said: Gentlemen of the Convention: “This Convention is assembled by order of your Executive Committee for the purpose of nominating candidates for State offices and for the…
Tags: Race relations, State Politics, Suffrage
"Creoles Like the Amendment," Raleigh News and Observer, May 13, 1900
CREOLES LIKE THE AMENDMENT. It Works to Perfect Satisfaction of the Educated and Uneducated Whites in the Sugar District. By Josephus Daniels Thibieodeaux, May 10. – “Under the Constitutional amendment, by reason of section five, every…
Tags: Suffrage
"Defamer Must Go" Raleigh News and Observer, November 10, 1898
DEFAMER MUST GO
Mass Meeting of White Citizens of Wilmington Pass Resolutions.
EXPULSION OF MANLY
AND RESIGNATIONS OF MAYOR AND CHIEF OF POLICE DEMANDED.
MANLY GIVEN TWENTY-FOUR HOURS
Time for Negro Domination Forever Past,
Though…
"Editorial Notes on the South," May 31, 1867
If an election of any kind were to be held in the South within the next month, there is no reasonable doubt that three-fourths of the negro vote would be cast with the Southern white vote. There is perfect accord between the large portion of the…
Tags: Class Relations, Free Blacks, Race relations, Suffrage
"Emancipation Day," Raleigh News and Observer, January 4, 1900
EMANCIPATION DAY Our friends, the negro chasers, opened their political campaign in behalf of their Constitutional Amendment on Emancipation Day. The selection of the day was characteristically tactful. --- Asheville Gazette (Republican organ.) No…
Tags: Race relations, State Government, Suffrage
"Governor W. W. Holden," June 24, 1865
President Johnson's policy in regard to the State of North Carolina is an indication of his general policy of reconstruction, and is therefore worthy of the most careful attention. The President takes the ground that the rebellion has deprived the…
"Grand Democratic Rally," Raleigh News and Observer, May 13, 1898
GRAND DEMOCRATIC RALLY
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Aycock and Craig Open the Ball Gloriously,
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WHITE MAN AND METAL
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A GREAT DAY FOR THE DEMOCRACY OF RICHMOND COUNTY
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WHITE MEN OF ALL POLITICAL FAITHS
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Join in the Commencement of a Campaign that is to…
Tags: Race relations, State Politics
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North Carolinian voters chose John C. Breckinridge in presidential election, November 6, 1860
On November 6, 1860, in the presidential election, North Carolinian voters chose John C. Breckinridge (pictured), the southern Democratic nominee,…