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Brown, Joseph Emerson, 1821-1894 Speech given at the National Republican Convention

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC07292 Author/Creator: Brown, Joseph Emerson, 1821-1894 Place Written: s.l. Type: Broadside Date: 1868/05/20 Pagination: 1 p. : Height: 51.3 cm, Width: 16.3 cm Order a Copy

Speaking at the Republican National Convention of 1868 at Chicago. Brown, Civil War govenor of Georgia, focuses on the feeling in the South that he betrayed the rebel "cause" by joining the Republican party and advocating Reconstruction.

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