February 23rd, 2012
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“Ku Klux Klan ... Speech of Hon. Job E. Stevenson, of Ohio, delivered in the House of Representatives, April 4, 1871,” Washington: F. & J. Rives & G. Bailey, 1871, 36pp,, titled paper wraps, simply bound with string. An impassioned address to the House of Representatives by Rep. Job. E. Stevenson (1832-1922) offering evidence in support of outlawing the K.K.K. as essentially a terrorist organization. He cites and reads testimony from both opponents as well as its members. Of particular interest are statements made by Nathan Bedford Forrest found in reports from General George Thomas in which Forrest tells the general: "Why, General, people up North have regarded the Ku Klux as an organization which existed only in the frightened imagination of a few politicians. Well, sir, there is such an organization, not only in Tennessee, but all over the South, and its number have not been exaggerated... In Tennessee there are over forty thousand; in all the southern States they number about five hundred and fifty thousand... It is a protective political military organization." Stevenson offers mountains of evidence to illuminate the terror wrought by the Klan and notes the necessity of passing the bill in light of the guarantees enshrined in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. Congress passed the "Ku Klux Klan and Enforcement Act" of April 20, 1871. Light folds, toning at bottom, very clean and bright.
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