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Common terms and phrases39th Cong action Adelbert Ames administration adopted Alcorn alleged amount appointed army attorney Boutwell Report carpet baggers charged Chicago Tribune citizens civil authorities civil officers Claiborne County clerk Colonel colored members commander commissioners committee Confederacy Confederate Congress constitution cotton courts Davis declared delegates Democratic district Docs duty election ernor executive favor Federal freedmen Freedmen's Bureau Gillem Governor Ames Governor Sharkey Grant Grenada held Hinds County Holly Springs Humphreys Ibid Impeachment issued Jackson Clarion Judge justice Kuklux labor Larceny legislation legislature majority ment military authorities militia Mississippi negro Northern Noxubee County oath ordinance organization peace persons political President proclamation provisional governor race radicals railroad reconstruction acts removed resolution restoration secession Secretary secure Senate session sheriff sippi slavery slaves soldiers Southern testimony tion Tribune troops Union Union army United Vicksburg vote voters Warren County Washington Yazoo Yazoo County Popular passagesPage 202 - ... to the United States; that I have not yielded a voluntary support to any pretended government, authority, power, or constitution, within the United States, hostile or inimical thereto. Page 355 - A general diffusion of knowledge and intelligence being essential to the preservation of the rights and liberties of the people, the Legislature shall encourage by all suitable means the promotion of intellectual, scientific, moral, and agricultural improvement. Page 84 - I am gratified to see that you have organized your convention without difficulty. I hope that without delay your convention will amend your state constitution, abolishing slavery, and denying to all future legislatures the power to legislate that there is property in man ; also that they will adopt the amendment to the Constitution of the United States abolishing slavery. Page 156 - That, until the people of said rebel States shall be by law admitted to representation in the Congress of the United States, any civil governments which may exist therein shall be deemed provisional only, and in all respects subject to the paramount authority of the United States at any time to abolish, modify, control or supersede the same... Page 155 - That Congress would not be justified in admitting such communities to a participation in the government of the country without first providing such constitutional or other guarantees as will tend to secure the civil rights of all citizens of the republic ; a just equality of representation ; protection against claims founded in rebellion and crime ; a temporary restoration of the right of suffrage to those who have not actively participated in the efforts to destroy the Union and overthrow the government,... Page 84 - If you could extend the elective franchise to all persons of color who can read the Constitution of the United States in English, and write their names, and to all persons of color who own real estate valued at not less than two hundred and fifty dollars, and pay taxes thereon, you would completely disarm the adversary, and set an example the other states will follow. Page 172 - I have neither sought nor accepted nor attempted to exercise the functions of any office whatever, under any authority or pretended authority in hostility to the United States... Page 84 - English, and write their names, and to all persons of color who own real estate valued at not less than two hundred and fifty dollars, and pay taxes thereon, you would completely disarm the adversary, and set an example the other states will follow. This you can do with perfect safety, and you thus place the Southern States, in reference to free persons of color, upon the same basis with the free states. Page 280 - ... of individuals concerned, a large increase in the amount of government was contemplated. The costs of the new administration must be much greater than those of the old. He would therefore urge the legislature to take advantage of every opportunity for economy. In regard to the state's new citizens, he said : "In the face of memories that might have separated them from me as the wronged from the wronger, they have offered me their confidence. . . . In response to that touching reliance, the most... Page 367 - I am a slaveholder, and if I know myself, I am sound on the slavery question.' Jefferson Davis strenuously urged him to accept government service under the Confederacy, but he declined. His departure from the State was the cause of great regret among the University trustees, Judge Sharkey declaring it to be nothing less than a public calamity. References to this bookFrom Google ScholarPolitical Reconstruction, 1865±1877Michael W Fitzgerald To Degrade And Control: White Violence And The Maintenance Of ...REBECCA A KOSARY - 2006 References from web pagesJSTOR: The Day of the Carpetbagger: Republican Reconstruction in ... Reconstruction in Mississippi by James Wilford Garner at Questia ... Blackwell Publishing Ltd Oxford, UK HISN Historian 0018-2370 1960 ... CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Mississippi Reconstruction: Bibliography - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 15/18/20 Liberal Arts and Sciences Political Science James W ... Hiram Rhodes Revels: Biography and Much More from Answers.com Political Reconstruction, 1865-1877 TO DEGRADE AND CONTROL: WHITE VIOLENCE AND THE MAINTENANCE OF ... Carpetbagger —— 维客(wiki) Bibliographic information
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