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"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…
"Address to the Colored People of North Carolina," December 19, 1870
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, RALEIGH, Dec. 19th, 1870.
To the colored people throughout the State:
The undersigned Representatives send greeting:
Know ye that since the time that Haman conspired to destroy all the Jews who dwelt in the Persian…
Tags: Democrat, Governor, North Carolina, Post War, State Politics, Suffrage, W.W. Holden
"Defamer Must Go" Raleigh News and Observer, November 10, 1898
DEFAMER MUST GO
Mass Meeting of White Citizens of Wilmington Pass Resolutions.
EXPULSION OF MANLY
AND RESIGNATIONS OF MAYOR AND CHIEF OF POLICE DEMANDED.
MANLY GIVEN TWENTY-FOUR HOURS
Time for Negro Domination Forever Past,
Though…
"FAMINE AT FAYETTEVILLE," Hillsborough Recorder, March 22, 1865
For the Hillsborough Recorder. FAMINE AT FAYETTEVILLE. We give an extract from a letter written by a well-known gentleman in Fayetteville to his father in Chapel Hill, of the date of the 14th instant: “We are in great distress. The Yankees…
"FROM FAYETTEVILLE," Wadesboro North Carolina Argus, March 30, 1865
From the Raleigh Conservative. FROM FAYETTEVILLE We have at length definite and reliable information that the Yankees have evacuated Fayetteville. “There are none of them left on the west side of the Cape Fear,” says a recent letter we…
"General Sherman in Raleigh," Mary Clarke, ca. 1866
By three o’clock in the morning we had bid adieu to every Confederate soldier, and instead of going to be, we retired to dress for the “sacking of the town.” “I mean to put on every white skirt I have,” exclaimed one…
"Lawlessness in North Carolina-Its Democratic Apologists," June 10, 1870
The murders and outrages which have called forth the proclamation of the Governor of North Carolina, are made by the World a pretext for arraigning the policy of reconstruction. Its censure is directed, not against the cowardly ruffians who are the…
Tags: Democrats, Governor, North Carolina, Violence, W.W. Holden
"Making Haste Slowly," June 24, 1865
The President's reply to the Committee from North Carolina, begging him to recognize that State as fully restored to the Union, and to ask from Congress a repeal of the test-oath, confirms what we said last week of his views in regard to the…
Tags: Government, Governor, North Carolina
"More About the Butcheries." Richmond Planet, November 26, 1898
MORE ABOUT THE BUTCHERIES.
LAWLESS CONDITION EVERYWHERE
Scandalous Behaviour of the U. S. Naval Reserves.
Officers of the Law Exiled.---The Treasonable
Revolutionists in Possession of the City.
ANARCHY TRIUMPHANT AND THE GOVERNMENT OF…
"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…
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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…