In which my great-great-grandfather John W. Aldridge and African-American lawyer George T. Wassom split the tiny Republican voter turnout in a race for a seat in the state House of Representatives.
Wilmington Morning Star, 16 November 1894.
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From A to izzard; or, the bedrock bottom of Republicanism.
Remarks at a mass meeting of the “straight out” Republicans, including those of my great-great-grandfather John W. Aldridge: 
Goldsboro Daily Argus, 26 September 1894.
Uncle Caswell makes a fine point. … And then ….
Colored American, Washington DC, 20 June 1903.
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(1) Who knew Caswell C. Henderson was “one of the best known Republicans in the County of New York”?
(2) Uncle Caswell worked at the United States Custom House, where positions were highly sought-after. In other words, they were patronage jobs. Now I understand the path the farmer’s son from North Carolina took to get one.
(3) It appears that Caswell wasn’t a white man at work after all. He was merely one when below the Mason-Dixon line.
