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UNION LEAGUE OF AMERICA, THE , sometimes called the Loyal League, an organization for political purposes of Northern whites, later of Southern blacks, which originated in Ohio
control the votes of the blacks. The League ceased to be important in the North, though headquarters were in New York
secret order, whose members were sworn to support one another on all occasions, to vote in elections only for negroes or Northern men, and to overthrow the Southern " white oligarchy." No ex-Confederate and few Southern Unionists were permitted to join. At each meeting the members were taught from a catechism prepared by Radical members of Congress that they must beware of their white neighbours as their worst enemies, that the Democratic party, to which the Southern whites belonged, bad opposed emancipation and was still opposed to any rights for the negro. In order to prevent moral control of the negroes by former masters, the League, by an " exodus order," required all negroes who were stilt
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