6. James R. Doolittle, An Appeal to the Senate to Modify Its Policy and Save from Africanization and Military Despotism the States of the South. Speech of Hon. James R. Doolittle, of Wisconsin, Delivered in the Senate of the United States, January 23, 1868 (Washington, DC: F. & J. Rives & Geo. A. Bailey, 1868). (15 p.)


Speech opposing the imposition of Congressional Reconstruction in the South with particular opposition to enhancing the civil rights of African Americans. (The collection has another copy of this speech distributed by a different published in volume 90 [no. 9].)