The Chronicles of America Series: Confederacy and reconstructionYale University Press, 1919 - United States |
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Administration agents Alabama army authority became Black Belt carpetbaggers church civil colored command Confederacy Confederate Government Congress conscription conservative Constitution convention coöperation cotton courts Davis declared Democrats disfranchised districts elections emancipation favor federacy Federal Florida force former Fourteenth Amendment Freedmen's Bureau freedom Georgia Governor Grant Holland Thompson House influence issue Klux Klan Ku Klux Klan labor land large numbers later laws legislation legislatures Lincoln Louisiana loyal majority matter ment Mercury Methodist military Mississippi negro negro suffrage North Northern numbers oath officers opposition organization party peace planter political politicians race radical leaders rebel reconstruction acts Republican restoration Richmond rule scalawags schools secession secure Senate sent situation slavery slaves society soldiers South Carolina Southern whites Stevens Sumner teachers Tennessee Texas thousand tion troops Union League Unionists United Virginia vote white counties
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Page 203 - After four years of arduous service, marked by unsurpassed courage and fortitude, the Army of Northern Virginia has been compelled to yield to overwhelming numbers and resources. I need not tell the survivors of so many hard-fought battles, who have remained steadfast to the last, that I have consented to this result from no distrust of them; but, feeling that valor and devotion could accomplish nothing that could compensate for the loss that...
Page 66 - I barely suggest, for your private consideration, whether some of the colored people may not be let in, as for instance the very intelligent, and especially those who have fought gallantly in our ranks.
Page 149 - Let every man fly to arms! Remove your negroes, horses, cattle, and provisions from Sherman's army, and burn what you cannot carry. Burn all bridges, and block up the roads in his route. Assail the invader in front, flank, and rear, by night and by day. Let him have no rest.
Page 75 - State, a power the people of the several States composing the Federal Union have rightfully exercised from the origin of the government to the present time.
Page 249 - Third: To aid and assist in the execution of all constitutional laws, and to protect the people from unlawful seizure, and from trial except by their peers in conformity to the laws of the land.
Page 29 - My observations lead me to the conclusion that the citizens of the Southern States are anxious to return to self-government within the Union as soon as possible; that while reconstructing they want and require protection from the Government ; that they are in earnest in wishing to do what they think is required by the Government, not humiliating to them as citizens, and that if such a course was pointed out they would pursue it in good faith.
Page 58 - That any vote of secession or other act by which any State may undertake to put an end to the supremacy of the Constitution within its territory is inoperative and void against the Constitution, and when sustained by force it becomes a practical abdication by the State of all rights under the Constitution...
Page 228 - The Speaker is black, the Clerk is black, the doorkeepers are black, the little pages are black, the chairman of the Ways and Means is black, and the chaplain is coal-black.
Page 73 - Johnson, we have faith in you. By the gods, there will be no trouble now in running the government!
Page 193 - That nothing in this act shall be construed to authorize a change in the relation which the said slaves shall bear toward their owners, except by consent of the owners and of the States in which they may reside, and in pursuance of the laws thereof.