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Excerpt from Republican Campaign Text Book: For 1878 Extending The Homestead Act - Democratic Opposition And Votes; Southern Claims; $300,000,000 Of Southern Public And Private Claims For Cotton, War Material, Captured And Abandoned Property, Etc.; Rebel Claims Demanded As A Matter Of "Justice And Right" - All Property Destroyed By Both Armies Must Be Paid For - Rebel Soldiers Or Their Heirs Must "Be Paid In Bonds Or Public Lands For Lost Time, Limbs And Lives "; A "Specimen Brick" Of Southern Claims - Its Bogus Character And Wonderful Growth; $400,000,000 More - Compensation Demanded for Emancipated Slaves; A Brief Review of Some of the Rebel Claims - Direct Tax - Cotton Tax - Special Relief - Destruction of Property - Compensation for Slaves - Rebel Mail Contractors, etc - They Already Reach the Enormous Amount of Three Thousand Millions of Dollars - Where Will It End?; Claim of the College Of "William and Mary" - One of the Entering Wedges; Fraudulent Claims of Southern Mail Contractors - How the Democrats Strove To Steal $1,000,000 - How the House Republicans Stopped the Steal - A Specimen of Southern "Morality" - The Vote That "Scotched" the Fraudulent Claims; Subsequent Assault on the Senate by the Southern Mail Contractors - But They Are Finally Discomfited - Propositions and Votes; Conger's Proposed Constitutional Amendment Prohibiting Payment of Rebel Claims - Vote Thereon - The Democratic Party Under Southern Domination Would Pay Them, as the Record Shows; Tilden's Pretended Aversion to Rebel Claims - His Duplicity - He Would Not Pay "Disloyal" Claims, But Holds That "We Are All Loyal Now" - Ex-Confederate Cabell's Ingenious Report Proving that Pardoned or Amnestied Rebels were "Always Loyal" - Promised Action " After the Fall Elections."; First Steps of the Revolution; Introduction to the Evidences Of Tilden's Revolutionary Intentions - Democratic Revolutionary Proceedings Thus Far - Their Remarkable Growth - How a Minority Can Overthrow a Government - Forcible Illustrations of the Peril That Potter Is Precipitating - Plausible Pretexts for Revolution Always Ready; The First Potter Letter Declaring the Election Should Be Thrown Into the House - That the House Is the Sole Judge of Presidential Elections, Can Act Alone on Its Own Information, and Is Supreme - Tiden As Commander-in-Chief; The Electoral Commission Act - Votes Proving It a Democratic Measure - The Electoral Count - The Vote as Announced - Subsequent Revolutionary Proceedings of the House Before the Adjournment of the Forty-Fourth Congress - Field's Quo Warranto Bill and Vote on It; Report of House Committee Affirming the Right of the House to Go Behind Returns, and Its Authority Over the Count - Vote on Burchard's Amendment To It; Morrison's Letter on Tilden's "Pluck" - Tilden Thought He Had "Packed" the Electoral Commission - Hendricks urges the House to Declare Tilden Duly Elected - Votes By Which the House Makes That Revolutionary Declaration - Subsequent Democratic Protest Declaring Hayes "A Usurper" - Tiden Officially Notified of His Election - Did He Take the Oath? - Revolutionary Talk - Hewitt's Enforced Resignation and Singular Apology - Judge Black's threat; The Manhattan Club Reception - Orders Which the Democratic House is Now Enforcing - Treasonable Utterances of Tilden, Dorsheimer, Dudley Field and Others - One Thousand Distinguished Democrats from Twelve Different States Applaud the Treason ; Maryland Selected To Make The First Movement in the Plot - The Montgomery/Blair Quo Warranto Resolution; The Potter Iniquity Founded Upon the Maryland Initiative About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com