THE LIBERAL REPUBLICANS
The Liberal Republican movement begins in Missouri--Its
leaders--Enfranchisement of the ex-Confederates, civil service
reform, and revenue reform, the issues--Meeting of revenue
reformers at New York, November 22, 1871--James G. Blaine,
Speaker of the House, offers them a majority of the Committee of
Ways and Means--The Missouri movement alarms the Republican
leaders--They pass the Ku-Klux Bill for the employment of
military force in the South--Trumbull and Schurz oppose the
Ku-Klux bill--Trumbull pronounces it an unconstitutional
measure--Schurz advocates the removal of all political
disabilities--Congress passes an act of universal amnesty after
the meeting of the Liberal Republican Convention 351