Documentary History of Reconstruction: Political, Military, Social, Religious, Educational & Industrial, 1865 to the Present Time, Volume 1

Walter Lynwood Fleming

A.H. Clark Company, 1906 - Reconstruction

Contents

• 9 Report of General Grant: 9
• Destitution and want among the whites: 20
• The cotton: 34
• Northern men in the South: 43
• 1 General Lees advice to the Southern people: 63
• 68: 93
• 4 Loyalist opposition to negro suffrage: 100
• References: 107
• Sect: 117
• 2 The WadeOavls plan: 124
• 2 Herschel V Johnson on Reconstruction: 132
• 2 Gerrit Smith advises leniency: 139
• 2 Five conditions of reconstruction: 145
• Restoration by the President: 161
• Introduction The Editor: 163
• References: 165
• The Presidents plan in operation: 167
• 2 Southern state governments not recognized 3 Johnsons proclamation of amnesty: 168
• 4 Appointment of a provisional governor: 171
• 5 Forming a Johnson state government: 174
• 6 President Johnson on negro suffrage 7 A debate on the abolition of slavery: 177
• 8 Abolition in North Carolina: 179
• 9 The ordinance of secession null and void: 180
• 10 Repudiation of aMWlfrt debt 11 Organizing a nWeminent 12 Laws in foret: 183
• The provisional governments in the South: 189
• 2 The effects of the Test Oath: 190
• 3 The iron clad Test Oath: 191
• 4 The Alabama legislature on the state of the Union: 192
• 5 The legal end of the: 193
• 6 A Southern opinion of the Johnson governments: 195
• Opposition of Congress: 197
• 3 The restoration of Tennessee: 202
• Military government 18651866: 203
• National politics 1866: 213
• 3 Cleveland Convention platform: 215
• 4 Pittsburg Convention resolutions: 216
• 5 President Johnsons Cleveland speech: 218
• Politics in the South 1866: 228
• 2 The Louisiana Democratic platform: 229
• 3 Radical politics in Virginia: 230
• 4 Speeches of a Radical agitator: 231
• 5 A negro politician in Florida: 232
• Rejection of the Fourteenth Amendment: 234
• The Fourteenth Amendment rejected in Florida Arkansas rejects the Fourteenth Amendment: 236
• The President opposes the Fourteenth Amendment: 237
• A Southern proposal for a Fourteenth Amendment: 238
• Black Codes: 241
• Introduction The Editor: 243
• References: 246
• Discussion of race and labor problems: 247
• G Mernmlnger on race and labor problems 2 The negro problem in Mississippi: 251
• 3 Reasons for admitting negro testimony: 254
• 4 Labor problems in Florida: 255
• 5 The duty of the whites to the negroes: 257
• 6 Negro testimony in North Carolina: 259
• 7 The labor situation in Alabama: 266
• 8 Rights of the negro in Virginia: 267
• 9 The negro under the provisional government: 269
• Laws relating to fraedmen: 273
• 2 Intermarriage between the races forbidden Alabama 3 Civil rights of negroes in Arkansas: 274
• 4 Negro testimony in Alabama courts 5 Labor contracts in Florida: 275
• 6 Schools for freedmen in Florida: 277
• 7 Regulations for freedmen in Louisiana: 279
• 8 A Mississippi Jim Crotf law 9 Mississippi apprentice: 282
• 10 Mississippi vagrant: 283
• 11 Civil Rights of freedmen in Mississippi: 286
• 12 Certain offenses of freedmen Mississippi: 289
• 13 North Carolina Black Code: 290
• 14 The domestic relations of negroes pauperism and vagrancy South Carolina: 294
• 15 Persons of color in Tennessee: 310
• 16 The negro in the new constitutions: 311
• The Freedmens Bureau and the Freedmens Bank: 313
• Introduction The Editor: 315
• References: 318
• Laws relating to the Bureau: 319
• 2 Second Freedmens Bureau: 321
• Official regulations and reports: 327
• 2 Rules and regulations for assistant commissioners: 328
• 3 Instructions to assistant commissioners: 330
• 4 The Bureau and the laws of the states 5 Regulation of labor contracts: 332
• 10 Jealousy of the army: 344
• 11 The fate of the Old Time Southerner: 345
• 12 Dislike of the Bureau in Kentucky: 346
• 13 Bureau courts in Georgia: 347
• 14 Failure of the colonization plan: 348
• Forty acres and a mule: 350
• 2 The policy of the Bureau in regard to confiscation: 352
• 3 Freedinen expect lands: 353
• 4 Confiscations in South CairoUna 5 Some results of Shermans order: 356
• 6 Land certificates in Florida: 358
• 7 Painted pe s from Washington 8 Saies of striped pegs: 360
• Estimates and opinions of the Bureaus work: 361
• 3 The necessity for the Bureau: 362
• 4 The Bureau and the negro troops: 363
• 5 A Northern mans opinion: 364
• 6 Views of John Minor Bolts 7 Productive only of mischief: 365
• 8 Criticism of the Bureau not disloyalty: 366
• 9 The Bureau demoralized labor 10 Wade Hamptons opinion of the Bureau: 367
• 11 Influence in labor and politics: 369
• 12 The Bureau as a political machine: 370
• 13 Political activities of Bureau officials: 371
• 14 The workings of the Bureau: 373
• 15 Success of the Bureau: 375
• A negros description of the Bureau: 376
• 17 Charges against General Howard: 379
• The Freedmens Bank: 382
• 2 In successful operation: 383
• 3 Information and instruction: 384
• 4 Statistics of savings: 385
• 5 Frederick Douglass and the Freedmens Bank: 386
• 6 Investigation of the Bank: 389
• 7 Experience of a depositor: 393
• Reconstruction by Congress: 396
• Introduction The Editor: 397
• References: 399
• Congress begins reconstruction: 401
• 2 The command of the army: 403
• 3 Tenure of Office: 404
• 4 Supplementary Reconstruction: 407
• The Souths reception of the policy of Con: 420
• The use of the army in reconstruction: 428
• In the Black and Tan Conventions: 449
• Impeachment of the President: 458
• Fourteenth Amendment: 476

Bibliographic information

• Title: Documentary History of Reconstruction: Political, Military, Social, Religious, Educational & Industrial, 1865 to the Present Time, Volume 1; Documentary History of Reconstruction: Political, Military, Social, Religious, Educational & Industrial, 1865 to the Present Time, Walter Lynwood Fleming
• Editor: Walter Lynwood Fleming
• Publisher: A.H. Clark Company, 1906
• Original from: Harvard University
• Digitized: Dec 20, 2007