The Sequel of Appomattox : a Chronicle of the Reunion of the States
The Sequel of Appomattox : a Chronicle of the Reunion of the States
Fleming Walter Lynwood
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It was all right and proper to put down the rebellion. It was all right perhaps to emancipate the slaves. . . . But it is notright to make slaves of white men even though they may have been formermasters of blacks. This is but a change in a system of bondage that isrendered the more odious and intolerable because it has been inauguratedin an enlightened instead of a dark and uncivilized age. " The political parties rapidly grouped themselves for the comingstruggle. The radical Republican party ...indeed was in process oforganization in the South even before the passage of the reconstructionacts. Its membership was made up of Negroes, carpetbaggers, or Northernmen who had come in as speculators, officers of the Freedmen's Bureauand of the army, scalawags or Confederate renegades, "Peace Society"men, * and Unionists of Civil War times, with a few old Whigs who couldnot yet bring themselves to affiliate with the Democrats. At first itseemed that a respectable number of whites might be secured for theradical party, but the rapid organization of the Negroes checked theaccession of whites.
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