Grant and Colfax Elected by Negro Votes

Title

Grant and Colfax Elected by Negro Votes

Subject

Elections

Description

"...it is now ascertained beyond a doubt that the Jacobin candidates were elevated to office against the wishes of a decided majority of the white voters of the country."

Abstract

Grant and Colfax were elected because white men were disenfranchised in Virginia, Mississippi, and Texas, and others were denied suffrage "by congressional and legislative proscription." Deducting the "nigger vote" of the North, "we still find the black republican usurpers in a popular minority of between three and four hundred thousand."

Creator

unknown

Source

Walla Walla Statesman

Publisher

Walla Walla, Washington Territory

Date Issued

1869-01-01

Medium

Web

Type

article

Identifier

2008253188 [LCCN]

Bibliographic Citation

vol. 8, no.3, col. C

Temporal Coverage

early 1869

Provenance

Washington Secretary of State, Historic Newspapers

URL

sos.wa.gov/history/newspapers/aspx

Start Page

2

End Page

2

Geolocation