Description
Here, in early Reconstruction, the Republican Party is reported to be struggling to avoid a split in its ranks over the issue of black suffrage. Many who had advocated war to save the union and - indeed - to free the slaves did not expect to set blacks on an equal footing socially, politically and economically. This Democratic newspaper editor, in Walla Walla, Washington Territory, is enthusiastic about what may signal the demise of the Republican Party.
Bibliographic Citation
Vol. IV, No. 40, p. 1, col. F