Randall L. Gibson speech, 1888.

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Randall L. Gibson speech, 1888.

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Speech delivered by Senator Randal Lee Gibson at Monroe, La., in 1888 during his congressional reelection campaign. Speech gives an account of an interview with President Grant at the time of the Kellogg-Nicholls controversy over the Louisiana governorship in January 1877.

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