A Letter to Hon. Charles Sumner, With 'statements' of Outrages Upon Freedmen in Georgia
A Letter to Hon. Charles Sumner, With 'statements' of Outrages Upon Freedmen in Georgia
Hamilton W Hamilton Wilcox Pierson
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" But General Grant, General Wade, and Captain Bean interferedfar more potentially than I did. If I am a "_scoundrel_ of the deepestdye" what must they be? The "skull and bones, " the insignia of the Ku-Klux Klan and not thestars and stripes, represent the dominant power in that region. "Congressional reconstruction, the military, &c. , " are successfullydefied. The power of the United States Government is not felt or feared. They only know it as powerless to prevent the atrocities enacted befo...retheir eyes during and since the war. The flag that I had united with others to honor with procession, songs, and cheers, was powerless to protect me, and floats dishonored above thegraves of the 12, 848 martyr heroes who suffered and died in thestockades at Andersonville, as prisoners of war never suffered and diedbefore. I need hardly say that with my knowledge of the condition of thingsaround me, as presented _only in part_ in this communication, I leftAndersonville as desired by the _Ku-Klux Klan_.
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