An exceptionally rare Congressional issue of President Ulysses S. Grant's speech, and associated testimony and research, detailing in lurid detail the atrocities committed by the Ku Klux Klan in the aftermath of the Emancipation Proclamation and the end of the Civil War. One of the most significant Klan documents of the era. 

No examples in the trade and not traced at auction. From the superb Slavery and Southern Collection of Rev. Milton S. Carothers, Professor at Florida State University. 

United States Senate. 41st Congress, 3rd Session. Ex. Doc. No. 16. Message of the President of the United States, Communicating In Compliance with the Resolution of the 16th of December, 1870, Information in Relation to Outrages Committed by Disloyal Persons in North Carolina and Other Southern States. January 13, 1871. Ordered to Lie on the Table and be Printed. 1871. 61pp.

A very good copy, bound in cloth, very solid, with generally bright pages.