Documentary History of Reconstruction: The Union League of America

Walter Lynwood Fleming

A.H. Clark Company, 1907 - Reconstruction

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

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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

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

The Reconstruction militia	73

Political methods of Reconstruction	81

7 Why Adam Kirk was a Democrat	87

State and national politics	93

Section 6	102

4 Writ of habeas corpus suspended in South Carolina	128

7 Use of troops and deputy marshals	135

The Washington administration and the Dual	141

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	163

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

8 Educational conditions in Mississippi	204

9 A lesson in a Florida school	205

10 The White League after a teacher	206

11 Desire for education fast waning	207

12 The mistakes of the Reconstruction education	208

13 Armstrongs plans for negro education	209

RECONSTRUCTION IN THE CHURCHES	213

Introduction The Editor	215

References	219

Military regulation of churches	221

2 Military regulation of church services	222

3 Closing the Episcopal churches	223

4 A pugnacious Methodist preacher	228

Division or reunion	229

2 The Church situation in Virginia	230

3 Position of the Methodists in regard to reunion	233

4 Northern ministers driven	235

5 Border churches go with the South	236

Organizing Northern churches in the South	238

2 Reconstruction of Church and State	240

3 Disintegration and Absorption	243

The Southern white churches and the negroes	245

2 Organizing a negro church	247

3 Negro missions of the Southern Baptists 4 Negroes need religious instruction	248

5 The Southern Methodists and the negroes	250

Work of the Northern churches among the negroes	252

2 The American Missionary Association	254

3 Working upon the colored population	255

4 Mistreatment of Northern missionaries 5 A prophecy	256

6 Discouragement	257

Conditions in the negro churches	259

3 A persecuted negro church	260

4 The negro Episcopalians	261

SOCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL CONDITIONS DURING RECONSTRUCTION	263

Introduction The Editor	265

References	268

The whites during Reconstruction	269

3 Fear of negro insurrection	270

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

8 The credit system	317

9 The deadfall evil	318

10 A Northern estimate of negro industry	320

11 Conditions in 1876	321

12 Cotton production by whites and blacks	323

THE KU KLUX MOVEMENT	325

Introduction The Editor	327

References	330

Causes of the Ku Klux movement	331

2 Why the Klan was formed in North Carolina	333

3 Dissatisfaction in South Carolina	335

4 An Englishmans statement of the causes	336

5 Stealing and race prejudice	337

6 Desire to get rid of the negro	338

7 A Scalawags opinion of the causes	339

8 Violation of the Appomattox Programme	340

9 General Forrests explanations	342

10 The Whites must and shall rule	344

The declarations of the secret orders	347

Section I	348

2 The Knights of the White Camelia	349

3 Initiation oath of the White Brotherhood	354

4 The 76 Association 5 The Council of Safety	355

6 Young Mens Democratic Club	356

7 A defensive organization	357

8 The White League	358

The methods and work of the secret orders	360

3 Ku Klux costume	364

4 Spreading news of the Klan	365

5 A Ku Klux order	366

6 A Ku Klux parade	367

7 Influence in the elections	370

8 Negro officials ordered to resign 9 Ku Klux discipline	371

10 A decent man is safer	374

The Klans outlawed	375

1 AntiKu Klux statute 2 Martial law in Tennessee	376

THE UNDOING OF RECONSTRUCTION	379

Introduction The Editor	381

References	385

Conditions in 1874	387

Section 2	394

The South Carolina campaign 1876	405

The downfall of the Reconstruction régime	415

4 The Presidents Southern policy	421

Legislative undoing of Reconstruction	431

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

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Title	Documentary History of Reconstruction: The Union League of America Volume 2 of 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
Original from	University of Minnesota
Digitized	16 Jan 2014

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