Category: Elections
“We Go to the Polls for the First Time in 8 Years…& the White Vote Will Fall Into the Ballot Box”
A Democratic newspaper in Baton Rouge wrote about the importance of voting in the election of 1868. As in many similar articles, this one demands…
Wade Hampton & South Carolina Democrats Call for a Halt to Assassinations Nov. 1868
Following a series of assassinations of Republicans during the weeks leading up to the Nov. 1868 elections, the South Carolina Democratic Committee issued a call…
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An “African Carpet-Bagger” Was First Black Man Elected to Congress 1868
John Menard’s parents were People of Color from Louisiana who moved to Illinois, where John was born. He completed college in Illinois. In 1865 he…
“Raise High the White Man’s Banner” Democratic Campaign Song August 1868
The great Democratic Ratification meeting in New Orleans was one of many state or city gatherings organized by local Democrats to ratify Horatio Seymour as…