Excerpt from Message of the President of the United States: Communicating, in Compliance With the Resolution of the Senate of the 16 of December, 1870, Information in Relation to Outrages Committed by Disloyal Persons in North Carolina, and Other Southern States General Gillem, in referring to the outrages enumerated in the reports forwarded by him, remarks that all disturbances of this character are occasioned more by the disorganized condition of society there, and the consequent immunity with which such acts may be committed, than by any settled antipathy between the whites and blacks. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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A luridly detailed antebellum-era report listing dozens of cases of violent acts committed most prominently by the Ku Klux Klan in diverse Southern states over the course of five years.