MORTON, O[liver] P.

READ AND CIRCULATE. GREAT RECONSTRUCTION SPEECH OF EX-GOVERNOR O. P. MORTON, U.S. Senator from Indiana. Delivered at the Republican Mass Meeting, held 29th of September, 1865, at Richmond, Indiana. [Caption title].

NP: np, [1868?]. Broadside, 63.5 cm. x 45.5 cm. Text in eight columns printed on thin paper. Folded in quarters, erosion along one fold with slight loss, perhaps six or eight words, a few separations at margins without loss, otherwise very good. Not in OCLC which records an 1865 pamphlet printing of 24 pp. with the title, Reconstruction and Negro Suffrage. The caption "Read and Circulate" is in a bold font 1.5 in. tall, within double rules above and below the title. Elected to the Senate as a "Union Republican" in 1867, despite being paralyzed as the result of a stroke, Morton "became one of the ablest and one of the least compromising of the supporters of 'thorough' Reconstruction [in the Senate]. Probably he did more than any other man to obtain the ratification of the Negro suffrage amendment to the Constitution."--DAB. The last two columns here reprint documents relating to Grant [his official report on Reconstruction in the South, submitted to Pres. Johnson on Dec. 18, 1865] and Benjamin Butler, including the latter's infamous General Order No. 28, indicating that this broadside might be a campaign document. Morton was himself a candidate for President in 1876. Item #67618

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