Claudius Murdaugh (1 results)
Published by Various places 1872
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No binding. Condition: Very Good. Archive of Manuscript and Printed Documents, 1868-1921. 113 documents, approx. 573 pp. "the continued attempt to inflame sectional and race passions, and prejudices and hatreds, should not only cease, but be frowned down upon, by every lover of his State and Country."Claudius W. Murdaugh, an att…orney from Portsmouth, Virginia, served as a captain in the Confederate army and a member of the Virginia House of Delegates during the Civil War. After the war, Murdaugh took an active role in the Readjuster movement that briefly and successfully united black and white Republicans and New Departure Democrats to challenge the power of Conservative Democrats in Virginia. Murdaugh later served as a local judge in Portsmouth. These writings include his views on a variety of Reconstruction and Gilded Age political contests and other events, including an Irish famine and an earthquake in South Carolina.The archive consists primarily of speeches that Murdaugh delivered to political, legal, fraternal, and Confederate memorial gatherings. There are also civic and broadly patriotic speeches, some delivered as after-dinner addresses, some delivered after historical events. The remaining documents detail his career as an attorney and judge, including several charges to grand juries.Former Confederate General William Mahone formed the Readjuster Party in 1879, seeking to "readjust" the state's debt. An unusual alliance of working-class white farmers, progressive thinkers, and African Americans supported the party, which swept the 1879 and 1881 state elections. During its brief time in power, the Readjuster Party refinanced the state debt, abolished the poll tax, and doubled spending on public schools. By the mid-1880s, the Readjuster coalition merged into the state's minority Republican Party, and Mahone served in the U.S. Senate from 1881 to 1887. The Virginia Constitution of 1902 disenfranchised most African-American and many poor white voters and made Virginia a one-party Democratic state for decades. Contents and ExcerptsSpeeches-Political, Presidential Elections of 1872, 1876, 1880, and 1888. 4 documents, 40 pp. (.001-.004).001 Autograph Document, Speech on the Presidential Election of 1872, ca. May-July 1872. 7 pp."You come to ratify the nomination of Greely & Brown, and to spread to the breeze the flag of Liberalism, having inscribed thereon 'Universal amnesty, peace and good will.'""This great movement is the voice of the people. It is as though a great 'tidal wave' was about to sweep over the country, irresistible in its force and effect commencing in North Carolina, rolling on and on as I firmly believe until the present corrupt military despotism shall be swept from power.""From the first day of Lee's surrender, he [Greeley] has worked earnestly for the restoration of the South to her place in the Union. He was the first man of prominence to call for a general amnesty to the people of the South. And at the risk of personal defamation & party standing, he came voluntarily forward, and became one of the bondsmen of Jeff Davis, at a time, when blood was demanded, when our lands were confiscated.""What are the questions you are called upon to decide? It is "1. Equal rights "2. The preservation of the sacred right of habeas corpus "3. Purity against corruption "4. Opposition to Ku-Klux laws"And it is for you to choose 'Greeley or Grant.'""I believe that our political salvation lies in the election of Honest Horace and I intend to work & talk for him until the day of election."In 1872, Liberal Republican Horace Greeley challenged Republican incumbent Ulysses S. Grant for the presidency. After a party split, Liberal Republicans nominated New York newspaper publisher Greeley as their candidate. Desiring to unseat Grant, the Democratic Party also nominated Greeley and his running mate Benjamin G. Brown of Missouri. Although many voters opposed the corrupt administration, Grant himself remained popular, . (See website for full description). Archive.
