Anarchy and Its Remedy
August 18, 1906
Summary
Navy Charles J. Bonaparte gives a speech about “Anarchy and its Remedy,” using Lincoln’s assassination as a fundamental example.
Transcription
Anarchy and Its Remedy
Secretary Bonaparte Advocated Whipping Post for Lesser Crimes.
Can’t Be Removed By Law
Cumberland, Md., Aug. 13. --Secretary of the Navy Charles J. Bonaparte delivered an address at the Allegheny Chautauqua, near Cumberland, before a large gathering, his subject being “Anarchism and its Remedy.” He was introduced by Congressman George A Pearre, of Maryland, and said in part:
In September, 1901 when the American people heard that their president was an assassin’s victim, there mingled with the universal amazement, grief and indignation a feeling of peculiar horror aroused by the apparent absence of any provocation or even intelligible motive for the crime. Lincoln was slain when a whole people, exasperated by four bloody years of civil war, were desperate in this certainty of hopeless and overwhelming defeat inflicted, most of all, by him that all the states and territories in the United States.
Secretary Bonaparte Advocated Whipping Post for Lesser Crimes.
Can’t Be Removed By Law
Cumberland, Md., Aug. 13. --Secretary of the Navy Charles J. Bonaparte delivered an address at the Allegheny Chautauqua, near Cumberland, before a large gathering, his subject being “Anarchism and its Remedy.” He was introduced by Congressman George A Pearre, of Maryland, and said in part:
In September, 1901 when the American people heard that their president was an assassin’s victim, there mingled with the universal amazement, grief and indignation a feeling of peculiar horror aroused by the apparent absence of any provocation or even intelligible motive for the crime. Lincoln was slain when a whole people, exasperated by four bloody years of civil war, were desperate in this certainty of hopeless and overwhelming defeat inflicted, most of all, by him that all the states and territories in the United States.
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“Anarchy and Its Remedy,” Black Virginia: The Richmond Planet, 1894-1909, accessed June 17, 2025, https://blackvirginia.richmond.edu/items/show/686.