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"The Vampire that Hovers Over North Carolina (Negro Rule)," News and Observer, September 27, 1898
Negro Rule
The Vampire That Hovers Over North Carolina
"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.
"What Could Holden Do For Peace?," June 8, 1864
THE DAILY CONSERVATIVE RALEIGH, N. C., JUNE 8, 1864 JOHN D. HYMAN, EDITOR. FOR GOVERNOR Z. B. VANCE, OF BUNCOMBE The Conservative Ticket for Wake County! FOR THE SENATE Hon. SION H. ROGERS. FOR THE HOUSE OF COMMONS WILLIAM LAWS, THOMAS J.…
Laws and Resolutions of the State of North Carolina General Assemble at its Adjourned Session 1900, Raleigh, June 12, 1900
(Section 1.) Every male person born in the United Sates, and every male person who has be naturalized, twenty-one years of age, and possessing the qualifications set out in this Article, shall be entitled to vote at any election by the people in the…
State v. Mann (1829)
The master is not liable to an indictment for a battery committed upon his slave. One who has a right to the labor of a slave, has also a right to all the means of controlling his conduct which the owner has. Hence one who has hired a slave is not…
The Democratic Hand Book, 1898
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Alfred Townsend, Lowery as A Brigand Leader, The Swamp Outlaws, 1872
"What is the meaning of this?" said I to "Parson" Sinclair—the fighting parson of Lumberton—"How can this fellow, with a handful of boys and illiterate men, put to flight a society only recently used to warfare and full of accomplished
soldiers…
Amnesty Petition of David Schenck, May 14, 1866
To His Excellency, Andrew Johnson, President of the United States of America. David Schenck, a citizen residing in Lincolnton, Lincoln Country; State of North Carolina shows to your Excellency that his property is [liable?] to confiscation by…
Amnesty Petition of J. B. Carpenter, August 15, 1865
North Carolina
Rutherford County
To His Excellency Andrew Johnson President of the Unite States of America
The petition of J. B. Carpenter a resident of the County and State aforesaid, aged twenty seven years, last June and by occupation a…
Amnesty Petition of Peterson Dunn, June 30, 1865
To his Excellency Andrew Johnson, President of the United States
For I respectfully ask for amnesty and pardon according to the provision of your proclamation of the 29th of May under the following statement of facts. I am a citizen of the County…
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Josephus Daniels, 1862-1948
Josephus Daniels (1862-1848) was the influential editor of the Raleigh News and Observer during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He…