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North Carolina Republicans Address, circa 1868

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Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: This ten-page pamphlet opens by calling on the North Carolina General Assembly to adjourn because so many citizens claim that the current government is illegal and void. They had rejected their pre-War constitution so this Reconstruction version had been ratified; now the Democrats were calling for violent remedies to the situation. They couldn't get power by ballot, so now they want in by bullet. After many other accusations and histories, including the fact that Jonathan Worth, the...
Dates: circa 1868