Congressional (radical) Reconstruction continues: Commander-in-Chief Grant suspends the writ of habeas corpus in nine counties, in the Independent Republic of South Carolina, because of racist Ku Klux Klan violence.
Postscript: Grant later sent in the Army of the United states to augment the anti-Klan effort.
NOTE: While the editors deplore all racist ideologies espoused by organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan, they find meddling by the Federal government into a State’s internal affairs to be equally reprehensible.
[added 5/7/2022]
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Authority:
“Law of the Jungle”
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References:
Calvin D. Linton, ed., The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 203.
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