1876
![<em>No. 1. Issues of the Canvass, of 1876.</em> State Executive Committee of the Democratic-Conservative Party of Mississippi, [1876].](../../images/1876/Issues 1 Page 1.jpg)
In 1875, Democrats recaptured the state’s highest posts in part by using militia violence to intimidate their Republican opponents. The following year’s presidential race demonstrated this fundamental change in Mississippi’s politics. Below are the first two publications in a series entitled Issues of the Canvas, of 1876 printed by the State Executive Committee of the Democratic-Conservative Party of Mississippi. The leading concern is exemplified by the subtitle “Radical Extravagance Contrasted with Democratic Economy.”
Democrats carried the state for Samuel J. Tilden, but the disputed national contest led to the Compromise of 1877. Republican Rutherford B. Hayes received the White House in return for withdrawing federal troops from the three former Confederate states that remained in Republican hands (Florida, Louisiana, and South Carolina).
No. 1. Issues of the Canvass, of 1876
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No. 2. Issues of the Canvass, of 1876
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