. The political history of the United States : or, popular sovereignty and citizenship; birth and growth of the colonies; march to independence; constitutional government; presidents and administrations; congresses and political measures; party platforms and principles; rise and fall of parties. Questions of the hour-civil service reform, polygamy, prohibition, surplus revenue, tariff and free trade, arguments for and against, review of tariff acts. , and especially the Fourteenth and FifteenthAmendments to the Constitution. Further, many Northernmen had settled in Southern States. These, bein
. The political history of the United States : or, popular sovereignty and citizenship; birth and growth of the colonies; march to independence; constitutional government; presidents and administrations; congresses and political measures; party platforms and principles; rise and fall of parties. Questions of the hour-civil service reform, polygamy, prohibition, surplus revenue, tariff and free trade, arguments for and against, review of tariff acts. , and especially the Fourteenth and FifteenthAmendments to the Constitution. Further, many Northernmen had settled in Southern States. These, being in favorwith the negroes, and naturally supporters of the government,gained a control of local politics which made them enemies ofthe Unreconstructed. They were denounced as Carpet-Baggers, and the State governments they erected and supportedas Carpet-Bag Governments. But as they were operatingunder color of local law, and insisting on rights for the citizenwhich the Constitution plainly gave him, they could hardly beousted by regular forms. Ousted they must be, however. Theplan of terrorizing the negroes was hit upon. This was perfectedand carried out by those secret organizations which becameknown as the Ku-Klux-Klan. Their operations were so effective asnot only to intimidate the negroes but to drive out the Northernimmigrants. This achieved, the doctrine of a white mans gov-ernment became popular, and under it the regime of the respec-. ELIHU B. WASHBURNE.
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