Letter from Horace Greeley in New York City, New York, to Henry C. Semple in Montgomery, Alabama.
In the letter Greeley critiques the political situation in the South, arguing that African Americans "are a unit so long as they are led to fear disfranchisement. This fear banished they will vote their individual preferences as Whites do. Your party keeps them a solid mass by seeming to the th...
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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| Online Access: | http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/voices/id/4245 |
| Summary: | In the letter Greeley critiques the political situation in the South, arguing that African Americans "are a unit so long as they are led to fear disfranchisement. This fear banished they will vote their individual preferences as Whites do. Your party keeps them a solid mass by seeming to the threaten their right to vote." He also calls the idea of "negro supremacy a ridiculous humbug." |
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