1867 & 1871 – Two speeches by John A. Bingham, Congressman from Ohio, with regard to the political debates surrounding Reconstruction and the enforcement of the Fourteenth Amendment which granted equal protection under the law to formerly enslaved people, including protection against "armed combinations" and "conspiracies” (i.e., the Ku Klux Klan)
Washington DC: 1867 & 1871. Pamphlet. John Armor Bingham was closely aligned with the Radical Republicans, although some historians maintain that his positions fell somewhat in between their and the more moderate Unionists. He was active in the abolition movement and that the South had manipulated the Constitution to justify..... More