The diametrical opposite of a Bourbon Democrat.
1856. They say they’ll fight till the crack of doom before they’ll allow the Black Republicans to get the upper hand.—Seba Smith, ‘Major Jack Downing,’ p. 455 (1860).
1856. Now these gentlemen denounce us as “Black Republicans.”—Mr. Simmons of N.Y., House of Repr., Jan. 3: Cong. Globe, p. 141.
1856. The honorable gentleman from Tennessee (Mr. Jones), in a short letter to his constituents, used the term “Black Republican” twenty-two times: denouncing us for the election of Robert Morris a Black Republican (as he calls him) to the office of postmaster.—Mr. Purviance of Pa., the same, July 12: id., p. 921, Appendix.
1858. It was reserved for the Black Republican party to announce a doctrine which directly strikes at the honor and independence of fifteen States of this Confederacy.—Mr. Wright of Tennessee, the same, March 20: id., p. 1232.
1859. The election of a Black Republican President, and the reasons why we would then favor a dissolution of the Union, are, that such an election would be regarded as a declaration of war upon our rights.—Mr. Moore of Alabama, the same, Dec. 8: id., p. 71.
1859. [The State Rights men] repudiate the doctrine—a favorite one with the Black Republicans—that slavery … is the creature anywhere of local law.—Richmond Enquirer, Sept. 23, p. 1/7: from the N.O. Daily Delta.
1859. The N.Y. Times, formerly Black Republican, is now the New York city organ of Mr. Douglas.—Id., Sept. 23, p. 4/6.
1860. The Black Republican Legislature at Albany has nearly completed its work of black iniquity.—Corr., Richmond Enquirer, April 20, p. 2/3.
1860. The Black Republican members of this Committee are representative men of the party and section.—Telegram from Mr. Toombs, Dec. 23.
1861. I undertake to say here that no Black Republican Legislature will ever say it is their duty to render back fugitive slaves.—Mr. Toombs in the Senate, Jan. 7.
1861. I avow myself as utterly, unalterably opposed to any and all plans of reconstructing a Union with the Black Republican States of the North.—Speech of W. L. Yancey, Alabama Convention, Jan. 24.
1861. Partisans have united to fire the Southern mind against the hated Black Republicans of the North.—Sherman in the House of Representatives, Jan. 18.
[For the last four quotations see O. J. Victor, ‘The History … of the Southern Rebellion,’ i. pp. 118, 178, 205, 240.]
1861. We will preserve the soil of the State [of Virginia] from the polluting foot of the Black Republican invader.—Richmond Enquirer, March.
1861. The Black Republicans are a cowardly set, after all. They have not the courage of their own convictions.—New Orleans Bee, March 10.
