His approval of the Ku-Klux law, therefore, intensified a feeling already strained to bitterness, and although he administered the law with prudence, a physical contest occurred in the South and a political rupture in the North.
Alexander discusses the consequences of the Ku-Klux law, illustrating the tensions in post-Civil War America.
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The evident purpose of the United States Bank was to create, if possible, the fear of a panic.
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Gerrit Smith was a noble example of the champions of freedom.
His lightest word, sent thrilling to the rim of a vast audience, swayed it with the magic of control.
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