Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Wiroa-Week-15 Title A name given to the resource This Week in Reconstruction, April 15-30, 1871 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Megan Wiora Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource April 15-30, 1871 Description An account of the resource The Ku Klux Bill is at the forefront of issues during the past three weeks. The bill is being prepared, presented, and passed with amendments. The Dispatch disagrees with the passing of the bill because it breaches and violates the duty of federal powers. The South views this bill as a direct threat against their freewill, even though its applied to every state in the country. They are aghast at the bill, and claim they would not perpetrate violence against anyone based on their race, despite evident proof that the Ku Klux has committed acts against African-American people. Southerners object to the bill because they believe that, "Congress had no right to pass any such law. It trenches upon the rights and duties of the States. It makes Federal judges, who at present are the mere creatures of the President, masters of the property and the persons of the people." Virginia, a state that has already dealt with great amounts of animosity from Congress, feels personally victim to this bill. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound We publish this law in full this morning. We have heretofore expressed our opinion of its general features, which are now very much when the bill first left the House. If the law were fairly administered, by upright. Competent judges, it could do no harm, merely as a law. The real objection to it is, that Congress had no right to pass any such law. It trenches upon the rights and duties of the States. It makes Federal judges, who at present are the mere creatures of the President, masters of the property and the persons of the people. It in effect repeals the Federal Constitution in so far as that instrument defines the limits of the power of the National Government, (yes, national) It will accustom the people to Federal interference in affairs with which it has no right to meddle, and pave the way for the assumption by the Federal Government of all the powers now exercised by the State governments. When for a few years men shall have been arranged before Federal courts charged with the offences created by the new law, it will be an easy matter to transfer to said courts all the criminal business now done in the State courts. Civil eases will follow after. It is possible the northern people may wake up next year, and put an end to the rule of these usurpers, these violators of the Constitution, these destroyers of the Government established by our fathers-these enemies of mankind. If not, farewell to civil liberty on this continent. URL http://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=DD18710422&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------# Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1871-04-22 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context WioraMegan-18710422-TheKukluxLaw.pdf Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Richmond Daily Dispatch Title A name given to the resource The Kuklux Law