Word: facto
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Dates: during 1874-1874
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...next informs us, and no doubt on excellent authority, that the Southern States are at present engaged in the unpleasant occupation of "writhing and groaning under the ignorant despotism of their colored legislators." This is adduced as a particularly lamentable instance of the evil of considering military men, "ipso facto, the very best for civil offices." It must be acknowledged that it takes a considerable stretch of inventive genius to discover what this and Decoration Day have to do with the writhings and groanings of the South. Perhaps the writer means to lay the blame of the present condition...