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"The Secession Excitement; North Carolina Legislature," New York Times, December 20, 1860
RALEIGH, N.C., Thursday, Dec. 20.
The bill to arm the State passed its third reading in the House yesterday. An effort to take it up to-day failed.
The Assembly takes a recess till the 7th of January.
The Commissioners from Alabama and…
Tags: North Carolina, Secession
"The Story Of The Wilmington, North Carolina, Race Riots" Raleigh News and Observer, November 27, 1898
THE STORY OF THE WILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA, RACE RIOTS.
By COL. ALFRED M. WADDELL.
Leader in the Reform Movement and Now Revolutionary Mayor of Wilmington.
(Special Correspondence of Collier’s Weekly.)
My active connection with what has been…
"The Supplementary Bill," March 28, 1867
I have considered the bill entitled “An act supplementary to an act entitled ‘An act to provide for the more efficient government of the rebel states passed March 2, 1867, and to facilitate restoration,’†and now return it to the House of…
Tags: congress, johnson, reconstruction, State Government
"THE TRIAL OF THE GOVERNMENT," May 26, 1866
IT seems to us they greatly mistake the tem-
per of the loyal majority of the American
people who suppose that because there are dif-
ferences among them upon certain points of
policy, they will, therefore, from sheer impa-
tience, grow careless…
Tags: reconstruction, Republican, States' Rights, Suffrage
"The Vampire that Hovers Over North Carolina (Negro Rule)," News and Observer, September 27, 1898
Negro Rule
The Vampire That Hovers Over North Carolina
Tags: Race relations, State Government, Suffrage
"The Wilmington Race Riot of 1898." Colonel Thomas W. Clawson August 24, 1898
Tags: Free Blacks, Freedpeople, Race relations, Racism
"The Winston Situation," Raleigh News and Observer, July 13, 1900
The Winston Situation Holton & Co., has a Democratic Registrar arrested by a Federal Deputy Marshal because he will not register negro boys.
Tags: Race relations, State Government, Suffrage
"These Three Have Met Again," Raleigh News and Observer, May 24, 1900
These Three Have Met Again
Tags: Race relations, State Politics, Suffrage
"To the People of Wake County," May 8, 1861
Fellow-Citizens: In The Register and The Standard of Saturday last I briefly announced myself a candidate for the State Convention. I did so at the solicitation of friends, and because of the flattering vote by which I was elected in February last My…
Tags: sectionalism
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Daniel Lindsay Russell, Jr., 1845-1908
Daniel Russell, a former Confederate soldier, became disillusioned by Southern leadership during the Civil War and joined the Republican Party in…