Black Horse Cavalry

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The Black Horse Cavalry was a bipartisan group of corruptionists in the New York state legislature which during the last quarter of the 19th century preyed particularly on corporations. It usually blackmailed by introducing bills against the corporations which would be killed if sufficient money were forthcoming.

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  • Dictionary of American History by James Truslow Adams, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940