Report of the Joint Select Committee to Inquire Into the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States, Made to the Two Houses of Congress February 19, 1872: Testimony, South CarolinaU.S. Government Printing Office, 1872 |
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... organization ? Answer . I have not , sir . Question . Commonly known as the Ku - Klux ? Answer . No , sir ; I do not know anything more than what I have heard . It is just all over the country just as anything should happen , I would ...
... organization ? Answer . I have not , sir . Question . Commonly known as the Ku - Klux ? Answer . No , sir ; I do not know anything more than what I have heard . It is just all over the country just as anything should happen , I would ...
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... organization in this county or State known as the " Invisible Circle ? " Answer . I have not , sir . Question . Have you ever taken yourself , or administered to any one else , or heard administered , an oath similar to this : " I do ...
... organization in this county or State known as the " Invisible Circle ? " Answer . I have not , sir . Question . Have you ever taken yourself , or administered to any one else , or heard administered , an oath similar to this : " I do ...
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... organization that requires its mem- bers to deny their membership and conceal its operations ? Answer , I do not know about that . Question . Is that the popular understanding ? Answer . I do not know that . Question . You never heard ...
... organization that requires its mem- bers to deny their membership and conceal its operations ? Answer , I do not know about that . Question . Is that the popular understanding ? Answer . I do not know that . Question . You never heard ...
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... organization in this county called the Ku - Klux ? Answer . No , sir . Question . Do you know anything about them ... organization here called the Invisible Circle ? Answer . No , sir . Question . Were you ever sworn into any such ...
... organization in this county called the Ku - Klux ? Answer . No , sir . Question . Do you know anything about them ... organization here called the Invisible Circle ? Answer . No , sir . Question . Were you ever sworn into any such ...
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... organized in accordance with the militia law of South Carolina . Question . What were the provisions of the militia law under which this organization was supposed to have been made ? Answer . I do not remember all its provisions , but ...
... organized in accordance with the militia law of South Carolina . Question . What were the provisions of the militia law under which this organization was supposed to have been made ? Answer . I do not remember all its provisions , but ...
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Amzi Rainey Answer arms arrested asked attorney believe Bratton burned called Captain Mitchell CHAIRMAN charge Charles Leach Chester Chester County citizens colored Congress conspiracy conspire Constitution CORBIN counsel court crime defendants disguised district election fact fired gentlemen give grand jury guns hear honors hundred indictment Invisible Circle Jim Wilkes Jim Williams John John Hicks JOHNSON Judge BOND juror killed knew Ku-Klux Klan live Major Merrill meeting miles militia Monday morning murder negroes never heard night o'clock oath object offense organization outrages paper peremptory challenge persons political present punishment purpose Question raid recollect remember republican road Robert Hayes South Carolina STANBERY statute suppose sworn talk tell testimony thing threats told took town trial TRUMP United voir dire vote whipped Whitesides witness York County Yorkville
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Página 1658 - An act to enforce the rights of citizens of the United States to vote in the several States of this Union, and for other purposes,' " or any acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto.
Página 1634 - That all citizens of the United States who are or shall be otherwise qualified by law to vote at any election by the people in any State, Territory, district, county, city, parish, township, school district, municipality, or other territorial subdivision, shall be entitled and allowed to vote at all such elections, without distinction of race, color, or previous condition of servitude...
Página 1619 - States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined not more than five thousand dollars, or imprisoned not more than six years, or both.
Página 1660 - An Act to amend an Act approved May thirty-one, eighteen hundred and seventy, entitled "An Act to enforce the Rights of Citizens of the United States to vote in the several States of this Union, and for other Purposes.
Página 1671 - ... offending, and against the peace and dignity of the government of the United States * * *."' >' Trujillo was tried before Jmdge Houghton and promptly found guilty.
Página 1666 - Is obvious that some certain and established rule upon this subject was necessary to enable the courts to administer the criminal jurisprudence of the United States. And It is equally obvious that it must have been the intention of Congress to refer them to some known and established rule, which was supposed to be so familiar and well understood in the trial by jury that legislation upon the subject would be deemed superfluous. This is necessarily to be implied from what these acts of Congress omit,...
Página 1648 - States to three peremptory challenges; and in all other cases, civil and criminal, each party shall be entitled to three peremptory challenges...
Página 1644 - Rainey to vote to be a right and privilege granted to him by the Constitution of the United States. This, as we have shown, is not so. The right of a citizen to vote depends upon the laws of the State in which he resides, and is not granted to him by the Constitution of the United States, nor is such right guaranteed to him by that instrument.
Página 1556 - She (Mrs. Gaines) alleges that her father, Daniel Clark, was married to Zulime nee Carriere, in the city of Philadelphia, in the year 1802 or 1803, and that she is the legitimate and only legitimate offspring of that marriage. The defendants deny that Daniel Clark was married to Zulime at the time and place alleged, or at any other time and place. And they further aver that, at the time the marriage is alleged to have taken place, the said Zulime was the lawful wife of one Jerome des Grange. If the...
Página 1619 - That if two or more persons within any State or Territory of the United States shall conspire together to overthrow, or to put down, or to destroy by force the government of the United States...