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"The Game is Ended," Raleigh News and Observer, November 10, 1898

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"The Game is Ended"

Simmons: The White Men Win.

Holton: Great Steptoe, I Thought the Black Men Would Win.

"Makes Them Color Blind," Raleigh News and Observer, June 19, 1900

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Marion Butler in his reaching out for the sensational rather over did the thing in Morganton on Saturday. He was trying to make the white people believe that the Amendment would disfranchise them. After finishing [?] that false argument he started…

"Butler Color Blind," Raleigh News and Observer, June 17, 1900

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BUTLER COLOR BLIND Laments Over a Mulatto Kid Thinking He's White The Amendment Disfranchises This Child, He Says. You Caught a Mulatto, Senator, Some One Replies. (Special to News and Observer) Morganton, N.C., June 16 - A small Republican…

"Negroes Trying to Register Illegally," Raleigh News and Observer, July 13, 1900

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The farce of a trial of a white registrar in Winston, inaugurated by Federal office-holders is an attempt to bulldoze with Republican methods in the South. They always rush to the Federal courts for assistance in their local affairs. The trial in…

"Cartoons Are For All," Raleigh News and Observer, June 14, 1900

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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…

"Grand Democratic Rally," Raleigh News and Observer, May 13, 1898

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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…

"Stealing Reduced to Science," Raleigh Daily Confederate, March 31, 1865

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Stealing Reduced to Science It is said that Sherman’s thieving crowd surpass London pickpockets in their profession. They have thoroughly mastered their trade, that it is a thing next to impossible to conceal articles so that they cannot find…

Rachel Huffman, "Plagued by Misinterpretation," May 10, 2012

The Civil War has been so plagued by misinterpretation that it has made the period an arduous time to study for historians. The first and most obvious way is how the causes of the Civil War have changed depending on the interpreter. For example,…

Letter of Quinton Anderson to Thomas Ruffin, January 15, 1822

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Caswell, 15th January 1822
Mr. Ruffin,
Dear Sir, On Sunday last I had an interview with my Brother William Anderson, on the subject of business of which you spoke to me on Saturday Evening. He appears disposed to enter into business of that nature…