2009-04
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 3/31/2009
Imprint, "Speech of Hon. William E. Arthur, of Kentucky, In the House of Representatives, March 31, 1871, 7p. octavo, headed "Executive Despotism - Congressional Usurpation", it reads in part: "...Under the pretext of protecting the people, the people are being enslaved; under the pretext of establishing order, liberty is being overthrown; under the pretext of securing the rights of the voter, the voter is disenfranchised; under color of maintaining the manhood of man in the political equality of the colored man, the manhood of man is denied in the political degradation of the white man. When the people are asking relief from the exaction of a tariff unexampled for its injustice and its rapacity they are answered Ku Klux; when they are groaning with hope deferred under the burdens of legalized plunder in the internal revenue system, they are answered Ku Klux...when the gold and silver of the country are horded in the Treasury vaults or sacredly dispensed to the insatiate bondholder at home and abroad, and labor is loaded and taxes are piled up to glut the enormous interest of the public debt, the expectations of a confiding people are presented with Ku Klux. We have Ku Klux in the Senate and Ku Klux in the House, Ku Klux in San Domingo, Ku Klux in the Executive Mansion, but Ku Klux of a more salutary sort in New Hampshire, with alarming symptoms in Connecticut, California, and Texas...." Much more. VG.
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