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Harper's Weekly 09/07/1872
THE WHITED SEPULCHRE.
COVERING THE MONUMENT OF INFAMY WITH HIS WHITE HAT AND COAT.
WHAT I
KNOW
ABOUT
CAPPING
THE
CLIMAX
This is a white man's
government.
Auction block.
Hunting down with
blood-hounds.
A negro has no rights
which a white man is
bound to respect.
Slavery.
Whipping-post.
New York riots.
Negroes hung at lamp-
posts.
Attempt to introduce
pestilence in the North.
Attempt to burn Northern
cities.
Burning of colored orphan
asylum.
New Orleans and Memphis
massacres.
Belle Isle and Andersonville
atrocities.
Assassination of Lincoln.
Ku-klux outrages to Unionists,
white and black.
Burning of Freedmen's schools.
Whipping and shooting of teach-
ers.
Repudiation.
Fort Pillow massacre, approved
by Congress of Confederate States
of America.
KU-KLUX.
THE RULE OF TAMMANY RING.
WHOLESALE FRAUD.
CORRUPTION.
NO CITIZEN HAD ANY RIGHTS THAT A TAMMANY ROUGH
WAS BOUND TO RESPECT.
CORRUPT JUDICIARY-CARDOZO, BARNARD, AND M'CUNN.
FRAUDULENT AND ILLEGAL VOTING.
BRIBERY.
COUNTING OUT THE VOTES OF CITIZENS.
RIOT AND BLOODSHED.
NAMES NOT TO BE FORGOTTEN:
TWEED, SWEENY, CONNOLLY, and HALL.
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