Reconstruction in Mississippi
Reconstruction in Mississippi
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If they were competent witnesses either for the prosecution or defence in cases in which either plaintiff or defendant was a white man and the other party a negro, there was no good reason why they should not have been permitted to testify when both parties were white.
This was not only illogical, but worked positive inconven- ience and injury to white litigants. In cases in which both parties were white, negro testimony was not allowable, although it might have been the only evidence available....^ Manifestly such legislation at this time was folly. Those who were responsible for it assuredly did not understand the temper of the North.^ It was such legislation as this, begun in Mississippi and adopted in other Southern states, that led the radicals, when Congress met in December, to set aside President Johnson's reconstruction measures. It gave them a pretext to subvert the partially reconstructed state gov- ernments and remand the South to despotic military rule.
They cited this action as proof sufficient that the South had not accepted the abolition of slavery in good faith, and it doubtless led some conservative Republicans to adopt the view that immediate negro suffrage was a political necessity.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
If they were competent witnesses either for the prosecution or defence in cases in which either plaintiff or defendant was a white man and the other party a negro, there was no good reason why they should not have been permitted to testify when both parties were white.
This was not only illogical, but worked positive inconven- ience and injury to white litigants. In cases in which both parties were white, negro testimony was not allowable, although it might have been the only evidence available....^ Manifestly such legislation at this time was folly. Those who were responsible for it assuredly did not understand the temper of the North.^ It was such legislation as this, begun in Mississippi and adopted in other Southern states, that led the radicals, when Congress met in December, to set aside President Johnson's reconstruction measures. It gave them a pretext to subvert the partially reconstructed state gov- ernments and remand the South to despotic military rule.
They cited this action as proof sufficient that the South had not accepted the abolition of slavery in good faith, and it doubtless led some conservative Republicans to adopt the view that immediate negro suffrage was a political necessity.
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