US 1380,13

9983.14

1882. Dec. 4,
Gill R
Jr. W. Faussey,
звед
of Cambrisse.

Prepared by WILLIAM E NOTT, Librarian of the Department of the Interior, under the

directio of the REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE.

Printed by THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN Printing and Publishing Co.,

Washington, D. C.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

Spirit of the Solid South.

PART I-Page 1-Wade Hampton's

Speech at Staunton, Virginia.

ful Fillibustering and Revolutionary

Expedients and Proceedings of the

Democratic Leaders of the House to

defeat all investigations into the facts

or merits of the Contested Election

Cases.

PART II-Page 2-The Confederate PART III-Page 27-Mackey vs. O'Con-

Brigadiers in the Senate-They eulo-

gize Jeff Davis, and would Pension

nor.

him and the Confederate Soldiers- PART IV-Page 38-Lowe vs. Whee-
How they Voted-Zach Chandler's ler.
scathing denunciation.

PART III-Page 4-Testimony of the

Representative Press of the South as

to the Demon-like rule of the Bour-

bons.

PART IV-Page 5-Further testimony

as to the lawless and corrupt rule of

the Bourbons.

PART V-Page 7-Convicted Bourbon

ballot-box stuffers in Mississippi lion-

ized by the Bourbon "Beauty and

Chivalry"-Fines inflicted by Federal

courts reimbused the criminals by

money raised through public enter-

tainments-Proceedings of a public

meeting at West Point, Mississippi.

PART VI-Page 8-Assassination of

Col. L. W. R. Blair, a Greenbacker

and United States Supervisor at Cam-

den, South Carolina-A Cold-blooded

Atrocity-A Brave Old Man Seventy

Years Old Murdered by a Bourbon

Leader-Previously Mobbed in the

presence of Hampton, Kennedy & Co.

-Persecuted and Slandered- High

Character of the Victim.

PART V-Page 44-Bisbee vs. Finley.

FART VI-Page 49-Smalls vs. Til-

man.

PART VII-Page 58-Gerrymandering
Extraordinary Illustrated by the Bour-
bon Democracy.

PART VIII-Page 62-Grand Ques-

tions for the Solution of the Nation-

Shall the majority rule?-Shall the

Constitution and the laws be enfor-

ced, or the Bourbon Minority be al-

lowed to rule through Lawlessness

and Fraud?