(POLITICS RECONSTUCTION) The Dude Democrats an epic racist

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(POLITICS--RECONSTUCTION.) The Dude Democrats, an epic racist political poem, by a disaffected and "disabled" Confederate veteran. "Come now oh Muse and plume my wing/ For t'is of the Democratic Dudes I now will sing. . . ." 6 pages, small 8vo, stitching gone. [Elba Alabama?], circa 1888

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The author of this attack on the hypocritical Democrats, accuses them of being as bad as the Republicans. He cites unfairness by imposing taxes, on the "best crops of poor Whites and 'Niggers', [and] take all by simply raising Figgers." There is a great deal on the cheating of both poor whites and blacks alike by taxation and legislation. The writer sees little difference in the candidates of the presidential campaign of 1888. "But now the people well understand/ They are the thieves that stole our Land/ Not only stole the Land-but robbed the childhood too/ In driving out Webster's Speller, wrapped in Blue."
The author who must have been involved politically, claims to be from "Elba, Coffee County, Alabama," says that he was "drugged and hurled over a bluff at midnight, 14th January, 1888, left arm broken, and right arm maimed for life March 30. . .all done in the shadow of the Court House, no hopes of any legal redress. . ."
We could find no copies of this pamphlet anywhere.