...that the federal government must leave the South alone to work out the race problem in its own way. "Our people are tired out with this worn out cry of 'Southern outrages'!!!" wrote one politician in 1875. "Hard times fc heavy taxes make them wish the 'nigger,' 'everlasting...

...repudiation of his party and its Reconstruction policy: "Genl Sheridan told the simple truth — but the truth is our people are tired out with this worn...them wish the 'nigger,' 'everlasting nigger,' were in or Africa. ... It looks to me as though the game was up for 1876."36 Sheridan wished to put politics...

...social purpose.112 And as the war receded, support for the rights of African- Americans diminished. "The truth is, our people are tired out with this worn out cry of 'Southern outrages,' wrote one Republican politician. "Hard times and heavy taxes make them wish the 'nigger,' 'everlasting...

...dammed bad that our party should be ruined. I believe Genl. Sheridan told the simple truth — but the truth is our people are tired out with this worn...the 'nigger,' 'everlasting nigger,' were in hell or Africa." Grant had never surrendered in his life. He had never given in to the Confederates. But this...

...be the mill stone that threatens to sink our party out of sight"; another Republican concluded that "the truth is our people are tired out with this worn out cry of 'southern outrages'" and that in the face of "hard times & heavy taxes" there was little interest in black aspirations....