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144. KU KLUX KLAN THREATENS A RECONSTRUCTION OFFICE-HOLDER Early threatening A.L.S. to a Black office-holder 1p. 4to., [Georgia, ca. 1868], in pencil, headed "Notice". In part: "...To Jeems, Davie. You must be a good boy. I live in a big rock above the ford of the creek... I was killed at Manassas in 1861. I am here now as a Locust in the day time and at night I am a Ku Klux sent here to look after you and all the rest of the radicals and make you know your place. I have got my eye on you...we have a box for him and you. We nail all radicals up in boxes and send them away to KKK. There is 200,000 dead men returned to this country to make you and the rest of the radicals good Democrats and vote right with the white people. You have got to do it or leave this country, no nigger is safe unless he joins the Democratic Club...give all your friends timely warning...[Signed] Ku, Ku, Klux, Klan". Note on verso reads: "This man was elected in April to the Sheriffs Office of the County of Lincoln. Similar threats have prevented all the other Republicanofficers from taking their commissions". Subsequent research revealed that the notation on the verso is made in reference to the writer of the threat, and not the recipient. Marginal chips, some wear.$300-500
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