If the Negroes, numbering one-eighth of the population of these United States, would only cast their votes in the interest of the Democratic Party, all open measures against them would be immediately suspended and their rights as American citizens recognized. But as to the real results of such a state of affairs, and speaking in behalf of those with whom I am conversant, I can only say that we love freedom more, vastly more, than slavery. Consequently, we hope to keep clear of the Democrats! I say to the entire membership of the Democratic Party, that upon your hands rests the blood of the loyal men of the south. Disclaim it as you will; the stain is there to prove your criminality before God and the world in the day of retribution.


Speech on the the Ku Klux Klan Bill of 1871 (1 April 1871)

Joseph Hayne Rainey Quotes

If the Negroes, numbering one-eighth of the population of these United States, would only cast their votes in the interest of the Democratic Party,...

If the Negroes, numbering one-eighth of the population of these United States, would only cast their votes in the interest of the Democratic Party,...

If the Negroes, numbering one-eighth of the population of these United States, would only cast their votes in the interest of the Democratic Party,...

If the Negroes, numbering one-eighth of the population of these United States, would only cast their votes in the interest of the Democratic Party,...