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Nemesis 1

Added: 2026-03-03
Nemesis 1

What this is

Page 1 of the first Nemesis Letter, published Feb. 14, 1871, in the Augusta Chronicle & Sentinel.

Provenance

Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Georgia

Archive reference

ms1650

Transcription

(Page 1) Letters from Nemesis. Number 1. Pen Photograph of an Extraordinary Bullock! To “His Excellency,” Rufus B. Bullock: The vicinity of your office and the sacred rights of a noble people, mourning under your wicked rule, can alone excuse me to my self-respect for breaking the silence in which I have, with the profoundest contempt, observed your ministerial course. It has been a theory of our government that the personal vices and private revenge of a man elevated to the highest office which he might hope to reach, will, at least, be checked by the desire to leave behind him an honorable name. Tested by this theory, your Excellency has still higher aims and political aspirations. And as personal depravity is the shibboleth of your party, you need not despair. Since Sickles has gone abroad, a foreign appointment may be in store for you, when nepolie Grant shall have finished the nigger list of his prolific kin. When, under Radical usurpation and tyranny, a choice was to be made for Governor of Georgia, had her intelligence, wealth and virtue been free to speak, you,