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- Collection: Postwar North Carolina
"Peace of Radical Reconstruction," March 14, 1867
The New York Times draws the following truthful sketch of the peace brought by such reconstruction as it yet aids to thrust upon the south:
“Tennessee -- If any ex-Confederate State is to be subjected to military law it certainly ought to be…
Tags: 1867, Military, reconstruction, Tennessee
"A Proclamation by His Excellency, the Governor of North Carolina," October 12, 1868
"The flag of the United States waves for the protection of all. Every star upon it shines down with vital fire into every spot, howsoever remote or solitary, to consume those who may resist the authority of the government, or who oppress the…
"Read and Circulate!," 1872
CONVERSATION BETWEEN A REPUBLICAN AND A DEMOCRAT OF THE RANK AND FILE. Republican. Well, neighbor Democrat, how do you stand on politics now a days? Democrat. I am a Democrat still. R. Going to support the Democratic ticket and endorse the acts of…
Tags: Constitution, Democrat, Government, reconstruction, Suffrage
"The Impeachment Investigation," March 21, 1867
In less than a year it has passed from the simple requirements of the Constitutional amendment to negro suffrage, obliteration of State governments and supremacy of martial law. The Same rate of progress would bring it to the confiscation point…
"Registration for Reconstruction," April 11, 1867
If the convention shall vote that it is the wish of the people to frame a constitution they shall proceed to frame the instrument which is then to be submitted to the registered voters for their adoption, the original registering officers still to…
"Taken From the Record," October 5, 1880
GREENSBORO, Oct. 3.- If the terrible civil war, which cost this country so much of blood and of treasure, was not fought altogether in vain, if the Reconstruction acts and the amendments to the national Constitution are not entirely without force, it…
"National Politics," December 31, 1866
In a somewhat similar view of the case the New HavenJournal and Courier looks upon the bill as "an immediate result of the refusal of the Southern States to accept the proposed Constitutional Amendment." For, while Congress was willing last Summer to…
Letter from William Woods Holden to Honor. R.M. Pearson, July 26, 1870
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
Raleigh, July 26, 1870.
To the HON. R. M. PEARSON,
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of N. C.:
"SIR: - I have had the hour to receive, by the hands of the Marshal of the Supreme Court, a copy of your opinion in the…
Tags: Ku Klux Klan, North Carolina, W.W. Holden
"The Lesson of the Ku-Klux," May 27, 1871
The Lesson of the Ku-Klux
Those who persistently deny the truth of the Ku-Klux stories, or ridicule them as mere tales of rawhead and bloody-bones, should remember that, whatever the explanation may be, the testimony is conclusive. And the…
Tags: Ku Klux Klan, Newspapers
"Republican Meeting in Ashe County," August 28, 1867
..in support of the Republican party, urging the necessity of unity in the Republican ranks, when the committee returned and reported through their Chairman, C. Younce the following preamble and resolutions which were unanimously adopted: Whereas, we…
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Benjamin Sherwood Hedrick, 1827-1886

Benjamin Hedrick (1827-1886), a chemistry professor at UNC, was dismissed from his job in 1856 after openly claiming that he supported the Republican…