This phrase originated with an action perpetrated on Monroe County School Commissioner Allen P. Huggins.
This phrase originated with an action perpetrated on Monroe County School Commissioner Allen P. Huggins. A group that took its name from this phrase was a violent supporter of Wade Hampton's gubernatorial bid. That group's name mocked Indiana senator Oliver P. Morton who performed this action while denouncing one group as a "common receptacle" and saying that every man who "shoots down negros" was a Democrat. This phrase was ostensibly derived from a Benjamin Butler speech in which he supposedly performed this action, but actually just denounced the KKK. For ten points, name this phrase that referred to Republican politicians' willingness to invoke the large death toll in battles like Gettysburg to gain votes over the Democrats during the Reconstruction era.
This phrase originated with an action perpetrated on Monroe County School Commissioner Allen P. Huggins.
Waving the Bloody Shirt [accept Waving the Bloody Towel]