Documentary History of Reconstruction: Political, Military, Social, Religious, Educational & Industrial, 1865 to the Present Time, Volume 2

Walter Lynwood Fleming

A.H. Clark Company, 1907 - Reconstruction

Narrative of Bering's second expedition, 1733-1743, by an expedition member.

Contents

• 4 Either civil war or military rule: 4
• 5 Preparing for revolution: 5
• References: 6
• 7 The battle in New Orleans: 7
• Orders similar to the League: 20
• Introduction The Editor: 33
• The new ruling class and their administration: 39
• Frauds taxation and expenditure: 59
• 1 The refreshment room 2 The State must take care of its statesmen 3 Supplies for South Carolina: 61
• 4 Some legislative expenses: 65
• 5 Public printing in South Carolina: 68
• 6 The finances of Arkansas: 69
• 7 Taxation in North Carolina: 70
• 8 Taxation in Mississippi 9 County finances: 71
• The Reconstruction militia: 73
• 3 Negro militia in Arkansas: 76
• 4 An experience with Governor Holdens militia: 78
• 5 The militia in South Carolina elections: 79
• Political methods of Reconstruction: 81
• 3 Bacon and hams in politics: 83
• 4 Voting early and often: 85
• 5 A Little Joker 6 The ghost of the Confederacy: 86
• 7 Why Adam Kirk was a Democrat 8 Fear of spells and charms: 87
• 9 Negro Democrats in South Carolina: 88
• 10 Political intimidation: 89
• 11 Why the Whigs became Democrats: 91
• State and national politics: 93
• 2 Division among the Arkansas Republicans: 94
• 3 Reform Republicans in Arkansas: 96
• 4 Anything to defeat Grant 5 Liberal Republican demands: 97
• 6 Republican platform 1872: 98
• 8 Democratic views on the Southern Question 1876: 99
• 9 The Republican standpoint in 1876: 100
• Federal control in state affairs: 102
• 2 Second Enforcement: 112
• 3 Ku Klux: 123
• 4 Writ of habeas corpus suspended in South Carolina: 128
• 5 The election of a Senator: 131
• 6 The attorney general and the Alabama legislature: 133
• 7 Use of troops and deputy marshals: 135
• 8 Federal interference under the Enforcement Laws: 138
• Louisiana and Arkansas: 141
• 2 AntiWarmoth handbill 3 The usurpation of 1872: 142
• 8 Appeal to the President: 147
• 9 The revolution fails: 151
• 10 Conditions after the revolution: 152
• 11 An army officers report on conditions in Louisiana: 153
• 12 Legislature broken up by troops: 156
• 13 Sheridans Banditti telegram 14 The Wheeler adjustment: 157
• 15 Two governors in Arkansas: 160
• 16 The riot in Arkansas 17 Presidents proclamation on Arkansas: 161
• EDUCATIONAL PROBLEMS OF RECONSTRUCTION: 161
• Introduction The Editor: 165
• References: 169
• Northern views of the educational problems of Reconstruction: 171
• 2 The negros capacity for education: 174
• 3 Northern songs in Southern schools: 175
• Attitude of the Southern whites toward negro education: 176
• 2 Shall the negro be educated?: 177
• 3 Why the negroes should be educated: 178
• 4 The Southern churches and negro education: 180
• 5 Southern whites should teach negroes: 181
• Northern aid to negro education: 182
• 3 A Northern teacher and a Southern editor: 183
• 4 A foreigners observations: 184
• 5 Value of the missionary work: 186
• Mixed schools: 187
• 2 Constitutional provisions for mixed schools: 189
• 3 The deaf dumb and blind: 190
• 4 The reconstruction of South Carolina University: 191
• 5 Results of the mixed school policy: 194
• Education during Reconstruction: 196
• 2 School appropriations in South Carolina: 197
• 3 Trials of a negro teacher: 198
• Section 2: 210
• Division or reunion: 229
• Northern ministers driven: 235
• Section 4: 245
• Section 5: 252
• SOCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL CONDITIONS DURING RECONSTRUCTION: 263
• Introduction The Editor: 265
• References: 268
• The whites during Reconstruction: 269
• 3 Fear of negro insurrection: 270
• 4 Alarm among the whites: 271
• 5 Thad Stevens is dead 6 Social ostracism of Republicans: 272
• 7 Social conditions in 1875: 273
• Conditions among the negroes: 276
• 2 Feeling between whites and blacks: 277
• 3 Petty crimes among the blacks 4 The quadroons of Louisiana: 279
• 5 Blacks do not like mulattoes: 280
• 6 The rights of black women 7 Proof of Publicanism: 281
• 8 Kissing negro babies for votes: 282
• 9 Social ostracism of negro conservatives 10 After ten years of freedom: 283
• The Equal Rights issue: 285
• 3 Intermarriage of races in Georgia: 288
• 4 Marrying a nigger school marm: 289
• 5 A mixed marriage at Port Gibson: 291
• 6 Sumners views on equality: 292
• 7 A Southern definition of equal rights: 293
• 8 Political effects of civil rights agitation: 294
• 9 Civil Rights Act 1875: 295
• Attempts at industrial reorganization: 298
• 2 To encourage immigration: 299
• 3 The effects of emancipation 4 Beginning with free negro labor: 300
• 5 Making contracts with negroes: 304
• 6 The first pay day on a plantation: 305
• 7 The land question in Virginia: 307
• Conditions in the Black Belt and in the white districts: 309
• 3 Negro opposition to immigration: 310
• 4 The emancipation of white labor: 311
• 5 An Englishmans estimate of free negro labor: 312
• 6 Cities and varied industries: 315
• The deadfall evil: 318
• Introduction The Editor: 327
• 2 Why the Klan was formed in North Carolina: 333
• Section 2: 347
• 4 The 76 Association: 355
• The Klans outlawed: 375
• Introduction The Editor: 385
• Conditions in 1874: 387
• 2 Pike County Platform: 388
• 3 Conservatives use Radical methods: 389
• 4 Whipping Independents into line: 390
• 5 Revolution in Arkansas: 392
• The Mississippi revolution: 394
• 2 Colorline in politics: 395
• 3 The Black Colorline: 396
• 4 Spirit of the Mississippi press: 399
• 5 Position of a Southern white Republican: 401
• 6 Why the Republicans lost Mississippi: 402
• The South Carolina campaign 1876: 405
• 3 The Presidents attitude: 406
• 4 Rifle clubs and artillery companies: 407
• 5 What is true and what is not true: 409
• 6 Hamptons speech to the blacks: 411
• 7 A man who will do what he promises: 412
• 8 Democratic working: 413
• 9 A White Mans Government or Military Rule: 414
• The downfall of the Reconstruction régime: 415
• 2 Troops withdrawn from Louisiana: 417
• 3 Troops withdrawn from South Carolina: 420
• 4 The Presidents Southern policy: 421
• Judicial interpretation of the Reconstruc tion laws: 423
• 2 The scope of the Fourteenth Amendment: 424
• 3 First Enforcement Act unconstitutional: 425
• 4 Ku Klux Act unconstitutional: 426
• 5 Civil Rights Act unconstitutional: 428
• Legislative undoing of Reconstruction: 431
• 4 Federal election laws repealed 5 Disabilities removed: 432
• Results and later conditions: 433
• 3 Citizenship made the Negro a Man: 434
• 4 Negro and white artisans: 435
• 5 The abodes of the blacks in cities: 436
• 6 Agriculture 18601893: 437
• 7 Industrial decay of the Black Belt: 439
• 8 Whites and blacks as cotton producers: 441
• 9 Morals after twenty years: 442
• 10 Coming out of Egypt 11 Criminal negroes: 443
• 12 Societies among the blacks: 444
• 13 Hostility of the low whites 14 The only trouble now: 445
• 15 Jim Crow cars: 446
• 16 Superstition among the blacks: 447
• 17 The negro churches: 448
• Limitation of the suffrage: 450
• 2 South Carolina suffrage plan 3 The Grandfather plan: 451
• 4 Old Soldier and Grandfather plans: 453
• INDEX: 459

Popular passages

Page 285 - That all persons within the jurisdiction of the United States shall be entitled to the full and equal enjoyment of the accommodations, advantages, facilities, and privileges of inns, public conveyances on land or water, theaters, and other places of public amusement ; subject only to the conditions and limitations established by law, and applicable alike to citizens of every race and color, regardless of any previous condition of servitude.

Page 411 - In this connection it is proper to state that civil rights, such as are guaranteed by the Constitution against state aggression, cannot be impaired by the wrongful acts of individuals, unsupported by state authority in the shape of laws, customs, or judicial or executive proceedings. The wrongful act of an individual, unsupported by any such authority, is simply a private wrong, or a crime of that individual; an invasion of the rights of the injured party, it is true, whether they affect his person,...

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Page 406 - We doubt very much whether any action of a State not directed by way of discrimination against the negroes as a class, or an account of their race, will ever be held to come within the purview of this provision.

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Bibliographic information

• Title: Documentary History of Reconstruction: Political, Military, Social, Religious, Educational & Industrial, 1865 to the Present Time, Volume 2; 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, 1907