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“ Perhaps there has been no grander thing in our history than the eager generosity with which the Christian men and women of the North gave and wrought, to bring the boon of knowledge to the recently-enslaved. As the North gave, willingly and…

“The time he had dreaded had come! The smouldering passion of the South had burst forth at last! For years--ever since the war--prejudice and passion, the sense of insult and oppression had been growing thicker and blacker all over the South.…

”It was for the discussion of questions thus arising that the meeting we have now in hand was called. The great subject of contention between the opposing factions was as to whether the recently freed people ought to be allowed to testify in…

So it must havebeen well understood by the wise men who devised this short-sighted plan ofelecting a President beyond a peradventure of defeat, that they were giving thepower of the re-organized, subordinate republics, into the hands of a…

ANTE BELLUM. NORTHERN IDEA OF SLAVERY: Slavery is wrong morally, politically, and economically. It is tolerated only for the sake of peace and quiet. The negro is a man, and has equal inherent rights with the white race SOUTHERN IDEA OF SLAVERY: The…

“MY DEARCOLONEL,--Your letter of recent date is received, and I have duly consideredits contents. The state of affairs which you picture is undoubtedly mostdistressing and discouraging; but I can not see how it can be improved by anyaction of…

THE Fool's neighbors having read his letter to the Wise Man, as published in thegreat journal in which it appeared, were greatly incensed thereat, andimmediately convened a public meeting for the purpose of taking action inregard to the same. At this…

"I have a curiosity to read them. I have heard so much about them, and never saw them before. You may not be aware, madam, that they were regarded as 'seditious publications' before the war; so that one could only get to read them at considerable…

In this letter, Albion Tourgee, a civil rights activist and representative to the Constitutional Convention, wrote to Joseph Abbott (pictured), a Republican senator, about the high Klu Klux Klan activity within Alamance and Caswell counties in the…