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John Sherman: “Still, you and your associates, leading men in the south, now enjoy benefits of political power derived from the…”

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Still, you and your associates, leading men in the south, now enjoy benefits of political power derived from the atrocities of the Ku- Klux Klan, in which phrase I include all the numerous aliases by which it has, from time to time, been known in the south.
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John Sherman
Ohio

Editor's note · Context

Sherman points out the political power derived from the actions of the Ku-Klux Klan in the South.

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