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"The Game is Ended," Raleigh News and Observer, November 10, 1898
"The Game is Ended"
Simmons: The White Men Win.
Holton: Great Steptoe, I Thought the Black Men Would Win.
Tags: Race relations, State Politics
"White Men to the Rescue," Raleigh News and Observer, September 6, 1898
"White Men to the Rescue"
North Carolina
Tags: Race relations, State Politics
"Makes Them Color Blind," Raleigh News and Observer, June 19, 1900
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…
Tags: Race relations, State Politics, Suffrage
"Butler Color Blind," Raleigh News and Observer, June 17, 1900
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…
Tags: Race relations, State Politics, Suffrage
"Negroes Trying to Register Illegally," Raleigh News and Observer, July 13, 1900
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…
Tags: Race relations, State Politics, Suffrage
"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
"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
"Stealing Reduced to Science," Raleigh Daily Confederate, March 31, 1865
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,…
Tags: Civil War, Memory, Slavery/Slaves, States' Rights
Letter of Quinton Anderson to Thomas Ruffin, January 15, 1822
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…
Tags: Slavery/Slaves
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D. H. Hill, 1859-1924

Daniel Harvey (D. H.) Hill (1859-1924), the son of Confederate general D. H. Hill, was an important figure in the commemoration of the Civil War and…