ADDRESS OF RUFUS BULLOCK TO THE PEOPLE OF GEORGIA. A REVIEW OF THE REVOLUTIONARY PROCEEDINGS OF THE LATE REPUDIATING LEGISLATURE. THE SLANDERS AND MISREPRESENTATIONS OF THE COMMITTEES EXPOSED. A REPUBLICAN ADMINISTRATION CONTRASTED WITH THE CORRUPT AND RECKLESS ACTION OF THE PRESENT USURPING MINORITY, UNDER THE LEAD OF GENERAL TOOMBS

[Atlanta?], 1872. 59, [1 blank] pp. Stitched, each page printed in two columns. Lightly foxed, Good plus.

Reconstruction Governor of Georgia, a former New Yorker who had served in the Confederate Army, Bullock was defeated in the elections of 1870 and then "fled Georgia accused of every kind of venality" [Foner Reconstruction 605].
This pamphlet is Bullock's defense, rebutting charges of corruption in the issuance of state bonds, illegal subsidies to railroads, sale of pardons, appointing crooks and incompetents to State offices, wrecking the publicly-owned Western & Atlantic Railroad, plundering the penitentiary system, etc., etc. Bullock charges his enemies with seeking to "overthrow not only the reconstructed Government of Georgia, but that of the United States."
The pamphlet vividly expresses the chaos of Georgia during Reconstruction.
FIRST EDITION. De Renne 733. 113 Eberstadt 218. III DAB 259.