Raynors HCA 2019-05
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Imprint “Speech of Hon. Columbus Delano, Delivered at Raleigh, North Carolina, July 24, 1872, 8p. octavo, VG. Columbus Delano (1809-1896) an Ohio-born Republican Party functionary, was Grant’s Secretary of the Interior when he gave this speech. ‘During his five-year tenure serious charges of frauds in the Bureau of Indian Affairs came to a head. Here he attacks ‘the specious cry of ‘reform’ -- the last resort of discarded demagogues,’ and rebukes Grant’s rivals for re-election, the Liberal Republicans led by Horace Greeley, and ‘Free-trade Democrats.’ He recounts the Republican Party’s triumphs over the preceding 12 years, defends the Administration’s Indian Policy, denounces the Ku Klux Klan, “The Ku Klux remedy was next resorted to. That orginization obtained and governed in foruteen counties of your own State, and to a yet greater extent in five neighboring States. In the fourteen counties it committed eighteen homicides, and administered three hundred and fifteen whippings on unoffending Republicans. But the avenging arm of the General Government has been laid, not too heavily, upon this last Democratic enormity. The records of your Federal courts bear witness to the barbarity and treason of the Kuklux Klans, and the convicted felons who have gone up from North Carolina and the neighboring States to expiate their crimes in the penitentiary are living monuments of the cruelty and treason latent in the Democratic party....” and pronounces the ‘death of the Democratic Party.’ Not in Thornton, Sabin, Thomson, Eberstadt, Decker.
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