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DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE
Harper's Weekly, April 8, 1871, page 307 (News Brief)
Congress

March 21. —The session of the Senate was mainly occupied with a discussion of the measures to repress Southern outrages. Mr. Ames said that 800 Republicans had been murdered in Louisiana within the last sixty days, and Mr. Nye produced a carefully prepared statement which showed that 50,000 murders had been committed in the South since the war. —In the House nothing was done.


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