...country was scarcely large enough to hold the sound of indignation belched forth by them for some years. Now, however, there is no hesitation about exhausting...on the slightest intimation that danger threatens. He also remarked that if the blacks who formed a majority in certain southern states were to intimidate...

...country was scarcely large enough to hold the sound of indignation belched forth by them for some years. Now, however, there is no hesitation about exhausting...suppress a strike on the slightest intimation that danger threatens.")21 In Martinsburg strikers erected barricades against the soldiers, but the troops succeeded...

...was scarcely large enough to hold the sound of indignation that belched forth by them for some years. Now, however, there is no hesitation about exhausting...on the slightest intimation that danger threatens." He went on to add that if blacks were ever to intimidate and deny the rights of whites, "there would...

...question of labor and capital, work and wages."40 Enjoying respite in Europe from the cares of office, former President Grant found the events of 1877 "a...replied, "but remember how you denounced him at New Orleans."41 All in all, 1877 confirmed the growing conservatism of the Republican party and portended...

...recalling the outrage that had greeted every use of federal troops to protect blacks in the South, added: 'Now, however, there is no hesitation about exhausting the whole power of government to suppress a strike on the slightest intimation that danger threatens' [Grant to Daniel...