item: #1 of 17 id: 16158 author: Lynch, John Roy title: The Facts of Reconstruction date: None words: 70993 flesch: 57 summary: Jacobs was a candidate for the Republican nomination for State Senator. Since Jacobs persisted in his candidacy for State Senator the Lynch faction brought out an opposing candidate in the person of a Baptist minister by the name of J.M.P. Williams. keywords: administration; alcorn; blaine; candidate; congress; convention; county; democratic; election; fact; governor; house; legislature; majority; man; members; men; mississippi; national; new; nomination; office; plan; president; republican party; republican state; republicans; result; senate; senator; south; southern; state; state convention; state government; state senator; support; time; united; vote; white cache: 16158.txt plain text: 16158.txt item: #2 of 17 id: 2053 author: Brownson, Orestes Augustus title: The American Republic: Its Constitution, Tendencies, and Destiny date: None words: 94546 flesch: 49 summary: These general relations and interests are placed under the General government, which, because its jurisdiction is coextensive with the Union, is called the Government of the United States; the particular relations and interests are placed under particular governments, which, because their jurisdiction is only coextensive, with the States respectively, are called State governments. Yet such illegal organizations, though they are neither States nor State governments, and incapable of being legalized by any action of the Executive or of Congress, may, nevertheless, be legalized by being indorsed or acquiesced in by the territorial people. keywords: american; authority; church; civil; civilization; congress; constitution; convention; democracy; domain; fact; force; general; god; government; individuals; law; man; nation; national; nature; new; order; people; power; private; public; real; right; roman; secession; sense; society; sovereign; state constitution; state government; state rights; state sovereignty; system; territorial; territory; theory; union; united states; war cache: 2053.txt plain text: 2053.txt item: #3 of 17 id: 23747 author: Taylor, Richard title: Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War date: None words: 98513 flesch: 65 summary: My horse and clothing were scorched, and many men burned their hands severely while throwing brands into the river. Many men fell, and the whistling of shot and shell occasioned much ducking of heads in the column. keywords: action; advance; alexandria; arms; army; attack; banks; battle; bay; bridge; brigade; camp; colonel; command; commander; confederate; country; day; days; duty; east; enemy; federal; field; fire; following; force; general; government; grand; green; gunboats; guns; hill; horse; infantry; jackson; johnston; left; like; line; loss; louisiana; major; march; men; miles; mississippi; morning; new; north; officers; orleans; people; place; pleasant; point; position; president; prisoners; railway; rear; red; regiment; richmond; right; river; road; south; staff; states; time; troops; united; valley; war; west; work; wounded cache: 23747.txt plain text: 23747.txt item: #4 of 17 id: 26240 author: Dixon, Thomas, Jr. title: The Clansman: An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan date: None words: 91834 flesch: 84 summary: Most of them were old men, who sat in grim silence with nothing to do or say as they watched the rising black tide, their dignity, reserve, and decorum at once the wonder and the shame of the modern world. There is no room for two distinct races of white men in America, much less for two distinct races of whites and blacks. keywords: aleck; arms; ben; black; blood; boy; cameron; come; commoner; congress; day; death; doctor; door; elsie; eyes; face; father; feet; figure; girl; god; good; half; hand; head; heart; home; house; left; life; lincoln; lips; little; long; look; love; man; margaret; marion; men; moment; mother; mrs; nation; negro; negroes; new; night; north; order; people; phil; place; power; president; room; rose; soul; south; state; stoneman; ter; time; town; voice; war; way; white; woman; world; years cache: 26240.txt plain text: 26240.txt item: #5 of 17 id: 29942 author: Pierson, Hamilton W. (Hamilton Wilcox) title: A Letter to Hon. Charles Sumner, with 'Statements' of Outrages upon Freedmen in Georgia date: None words: 9959 flesch: 74 summary: I should do great injustice to Mr. Dikes, Mr. Souber, and Mr. Crawford, and their sympathising friends, the author and inspirers of the above letter, were I to say, or convey the impression, that they were worse men than their neighbors. Mr. Williams states that Mr. Souber came to his house some two or three weeks ago, and told him he must get out of the house and leave the place, that he had charge of it now, that he was going to fence in the grounds and raise a crop in and around the stockade, and that he would not let any body live there but those that worked the place. keywords: andersonville; cemetery; day; freedmen; georgia; government; grant; house; land; pay; people; souber; statements cache: 29942.txt plain text: 29942.txt item: #6 of 17 id: 33058 author: Harris, Joel Chandler title: Gabriel Tolliver: A Story of Reconstruction date: None words: 119289 flesch: 83 summary: Taking Nan by the arm, she almost forced her to lie down. With that she rose to go, and hustled out of the room, but in the hallway she turned and remarked: Tell Gabriel that he will have to lengthen his suspenders, now that Nan has put on long dresses. keywords: absalom; believe; bethune; boy; captain; cephas; chapter; clopton; come; dale; dat; day; door; dorrington; eugenia; eyes; face; fact; fanny; father; friends; gabriel; good; grandmother; hand; head; home; hotchkiss; house; jeremiah; know; lady; long; look; lumsden; major; man; margaret; matter; men; mind; miss; moment; mrs; night; paul; people; place; rhody; room; sanders; silas; tasma; tell; ter; thought; tid; time; tomlin; town; trouble; voice; want; way; white; woman; world cache: 33058.txt plain text: 33058.txt item: #7 of 17 id: 35559 author: Woolley, Edwin C. (Edwin Campbell) title: The Reconstruction of Georgia Studies in History, Economics and Public Law, Vol. 13, No. 3, 1901 date: None words: 33483 flesch: 64 summary: The Johnson governments then were not state governments at all, and so could not send representatives to Congress. The committee thought that since the Johnson governments had been set up under the military authority of the President and were merely instruments through which he had exercised that power in governing conquered territory, they were not regular state governments. keywords: act; acts; amendment; bullock; committee; congress; constitution; convention; general; georgia; government; governor; house; ibid; law; legislature; military; negroes; new; reconstruction; session; state; state government; war cache: 35559.txt plain text: 35559.txt item: #8 of 17 id: 36666 author: Dixon, Thomas, Jr. title: The Sins of the Father: A Romance of the South date: None words: 118775 flesch: 88 summary: He paused and a black court attendant led out and placed in line against the weatherbeaten walls fifty or sixty inmates of the County Poor House--all of them white men and women. He knew that every paper in the state read by white men and women would copy it and he already felt in his heart the reflex thrill of its call to his people. keywords: andy; answer; arms; big; black; boy; child; cleo; come; dat; day; des; door; editor; eyes; face; father; figure; girl; god; good; governor; hand; head; heart; helen; home; hour; house; know; laugh; life; lips; little; look; love; major; man; mind; minerva; moment; mother; negro; new; night; norton; people; question; quick; room; rose; sah; smile; soul; state; tell; ter; thing; thought; time; tom; voice; way; white; wife; woman; word; work; yassah; years; yer cache: 36666.txt plain text: 36666.txt item: #9 of 17 id: 37244 author: King, Charles title: Kitty's Conquest date: None words: 71361 flesch: 80 summary: Major Vinton is the commanding officer of the cavalry, and Mr. Amory is one of his lieutenants. As for Mr. Amory, he is only a boy, to be sure; but the major says he is a fine officer, and I know that he is a real nice fellow. keywords: amory; bella; brandon; camp; colonel; coming; course; day; door; evening; eyes; face; good; half; hand; harrod; hour; house; judge; kitty; late; left; letter; like; look; major; man; mars; men; minutes; miss; moment; mother; new; night; parker; pauline; peyton; room; sir; story; street; summers; thing; thought; time; train; turpin; vinton; way; word cache: 37244.txt plain text: 37244.txt item: #10 of 17 id: 39720 author: Herbert, Hilary A. (Hilary Abner) title: The Abolition Crusade and Its Consequences: Four Periods of American History date: None words: 47549 flesch: 60 summary: Liberator_; personality and characteristics, 56; key-note, slavery the concern of all; slave-holders to be made odious, 58 Godkin, E. L., on negro as factor in politics, 237 Greeley, Horace, draws comfort from John Brown's raid, 153 Hartford Convention, 28 Helper, Hinton Rowan, his book, 165 Higher law idea, prompted Abolition Crusade--and Czolgosz to murder McKinley, 206 Immigration and Union sentiment; number of immigrants, 33; few South, 34 Incendiary literature, sent South, 62; North aroused; Andrew Jackson's message, 63; Boston Resolutions, 64; indictment in Alabama; requisition on Governor of New York, 98 Incompatibility of slavery and freedom; Lincoln's Springfield speech, 81; Garrison first to announce doctrine; Abraham Lincoln next; then Seward, 147-8 Insurrections, Denmark Vesey plot at Charleston, 59; Nat Turner in Virginia; Walker's pamphlet, 60 Irish patriots, Mitchel and Meagher, divide on secession, 35 John Brown's raid, 149; his secret committee, 151 Johnson, Andrew, succeeding Lincoln, carried out plan, 213 Johnston, Sir Harry, on negro in South, highest degree of advancement, 237 Kansas, fierce struggles in; Sumner's bitter speech, 142-3 Kansas-Nebraska Act, Douglas originated, 135; aggravated sectionalism, 136 Kentucky Resolutions, 1798, 19; Jefferson the author, 20; copy of first of, 21 Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions of 1798-9; Secessionists relied on, 21; Jefferson and Madison's reasons for, 22 Know-Nothing party, its origin; purposes; appeal for the Union, 140-1-2 Las Casas, Bishop, advice to King of Spain, 237 Liberia, sending negroes to, called expatriation; enterprise a failure, 46; Lincoln's hopes of, 81; why it failed--Miss Mahoney's account, 169-70-71 Lincoln, South no more responsible for slavery than North, 49; speech at Charleston, Ill., 81; finds no country ready to take American negro, 82; South in 1860 thought him radical; had favored white supremacy in 1858, 185; speech at Peoria, 186; assassination of, 209 Lodge, Henry Cabot, declares popular verdict against Webster, 118; he had undertaken the impossible, 120; his argument good, he not man to make it, 121 Lundy, Benjamin, attempts to stir up North against slavery South, 47 Lynchings, tables, 239; comments on, 240 McMaster, affirms Webster behind the times (note), 100 Missouri, controversy over slavery, 52; distinct from that begun later by New Abolitionists, 53 Mobs, Garrison mobbed; many anti-slavery riots North, 71; violence toward Abolitionists in North reacted, 85; opponents became defenders, 86 Mound Bayou, a negro town, 242 Nationality, spirit of; causes of, development of, 30; grows, North; South on old lines, 35 Navy, U. S., deciding factor in war, 198-9 Negro, the, located now much as in 1860, 7; Lincoln could find no home abroad for, 206; reasons for smallness of vote South, 233; improvement; Booker Washington's opinion, 236; benefited by slavery; attained South highest degree of advancement, 237; best opportunities South, 241; Confederate veterans best friends there, 243 Ohio, Resolutions looking to co-operative emancipation; responses of other States to, 42; Southern reason for, 43; Northern, kindly temper of, 44 Otis, Harrison Gray, on Boston Resolutions, 65 Pamphlets, venomous one cited, 75 Personal liberty laws, eleven States passed; Alexander Johnston says absolutely without excuse, 177 Petition, right of, in Congress, 90; gag resolution, 92 Political conditions, North and South compared, 162-3-4 Poor whites, discussion of, and of social conditions South, 155-6-7 Presidential campaign 1860, excitement, 171 Press, Northern slandering South, 153; Southern slandering North, 154 Race animosities, negro's aspirations to social equality; legal enactments, 238; whites embittered by crime against white women, 239 Reagan, Republican rule on Abolition principles, 105 Reconstruction, Lincoln's theory; veto of resolution asserting power of Congress over, 208; last speech, adhering to plan, 210 Reconstruction by Johnson under Lincoln plan; wisdom of Lincoln-Johnson plan, John Sherman; opposition to it partisan, Senator Cullom, 211; South accepts plan; senators and representatives, 214; negro problem and Jefferson's prediction, 215; apprenticeship and vagrancy laws, Blaine's attack on, 217 Reconstruction, Congressional, extremists bent on negro suffrage when Congress convened in 1865, 212; preparations for; committee of fifteen; Shellabarger's appeal to war passions, 215; South denied representation; Southerners reject Fourteenth Amendment; Garfield denounces rebel government, 219; Johnson's reconstructed State governments swept away; universal suffrage for negro; South sends Republicans to Congress, 220; witnesses before Committee of Fifteen rewarded; Southern counsels divided, 223; carpet-baggers and scalawags, 224; intolerable political conditions; race issue forced upon whites, 226; whites recover self-government, 227 Republican party, the modern; its origin; Mr. Rhodes on, 138-139; nominates Frémont and Dayton; denounces slavery; excitement; defeated, 144 Resources, war, North and South compared, 191-2-3 Salem Church monument, 9 Santo Domingo, memory of massacre in, 80 Seceded States, wretched conditions in 1865, 214 Seceding States, desire to preserve Constitution, 179 Secession, early threats of not connected with slavery, 26; Josiah Quincy threatens, 1811; Massachusetts legislature endorses him, 28; in early days belief in general, 28; Massachusetts legislature threatens, 1844, 29; eleven States seceded, 179; Prof. Fite justifies, his ground, 182; motives for in 1860-1, 183 Self-government restored; local clashes, no race war; based on Lincoln's idea, superiority of white man, 229; constitutional amendments to restore purity of ballot, 233; industrial results amazing, 234-5; negro vote small--reasons, 231 Seward, leader of Republican party, 178 Situation in Alabama in 1835--letter of John W. Womack, 79 Slavery, Great Britain abolishes, compensates owners, 39; South's calamity not crime, 48; debate in Virginia Assembly, 61 Slaves, protect masters' families during war, 132-3; a surprise to North, 133-4 Slave-trade, New England's part in, 37; South protests against; sentiment against arises in England, sweeps over America, 38 Social conditions South, 155-60 South unwilling to accept idea of incompatibility of slave and free States, 94-5; bitterness in, 101; on defensive-aggressive, 126; excited; filibustering; importation of slaves, 145 Spencer, Herbert, slavery once a necessary phase of human progress, 237 Sprague, Peleg, on Boston Resolutions, 66 Suffrage, Lincoln thought Southerners themselves should control, 203 Sumner, Charles, philippic against South; Brooks's attack on, 143-4; negro suffrage to give Unionists new allies, 220 Texas, application for admission, 93; Agitation had created all over the North a spirit of hostility to slavery as it existed in the South, and especially to the admission of new slave States into the Union. keywords: abolitionists; american; anti; congress; constitution; country; fugitive; garrison; general; government; history; john; law; laws; lincoln; man; negro; negroes; new; north; northern; party; people; president; race; republican; right; secession; slave states; slavery; slaves; south; southerners; speech; states; time; union; united states; war; webster; whites; years; | | cache: 39720.txt plain text: 39720.txt item: #11 of 17 id: 41680 author: Fleming, Walter L. (Walter Lynwood) title: Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama date: None words: 340503 flesch: 67 summary: | ---- | 1,143 | 4,973 | 8,250 | 10,459 Cleburne (_b_) | ---- | 873 | 3,600 | 5,389 | 5,035 Coffee (_b_) | 5,294 | 2,004 | 4,788 | 11,791 | 16,747 Colbert | ---- | 3,936 | 9,012 | 3,956 | 9,234 Conecuh (_b_) | 6,850 | 1,539 | 4,633 | 8,167 | 9,801 Coosa | 13,990 | 3,893 | 8,411 | 10,141 | 11,370 Covington (_b_) | 2,021 | 689 | 1,158 | 2,740 | 5,969 Crenshaw (_b_) | ---- | 4,638 | 8,173 | 13,442 | 18,909 Cullman (_b_) | ---- | ---- | 378 | 5,268 | 9,374 Dale (_b_) | 7,836 | 4,273 | 6,224 | 16,259 | 17,868 Dallas (_a_) | 63,410 | 24,819 | 33,534 | 42,819 | 48,273 De Kalb (_b_) | 1,498 | 205 | 2,859 | 4,573 | 9,860 Elmore (_b_) | ---- | 7,295 | 9,771 | 16,871 | 18,458 Escambia | ---- | 605 | 94 | 462 | 1,131 Etowah (_b_) | ---- | 1,383 | 6,571 | 8,482 | 11,651 Fayette (_b_) | 5,462 | 1,909 | 4,268 | 6,141 | 9,128 Franklin | 15,592 | 2,072 | 3,603 | 2,669 | 6,047 Geneva (_b_) | ---- | 420 | 1,112 | 7,158 | 9,813 Greene (_a_) | 57,858 | 9,910 | 15,811 | 20,901 | 23,681 Hale | ---- | 18,573 | 18,093 | 28,973 | 28,645 Henry (_b_) | 13,034 | 7,127 | 12,573 | 23,738 | 27,281 Jackson (_b_) | 2,713 | 2,339 | 6,235 | 5,358 | 5,602 Jefferson (_b_) | 4,940 | 1,470 | 5,333 | 4,829 | 7,044 Lamar (Sanford) | | | | | (_b_) | ---- | 1,825 | 5,015 | 6,998 | 10,118 Lauderdale | 11,050 | 5,457 | 9,270 | 5,156 | 9,708 Lawrence | 15,434 | 9,243 | 13,791 | 9,248 | 12,541 Lee | ---- | 11,591 | 13,189 | 18,332 | 22,431 Limestone | 15,115 | 7,319 | 15,724 | 8,093 | 14,887 Lowndes (_a_) | 53,664 | 18,369 | 29,356 | 40,388 | 39,839 Macon (_a_) | 41,119 | 11,872 | 14,580 | 19,099 | 20,434 Madison | 22,119 | 12,180 | 20,679 | 13,150 | 20,842 Marengo (_a_) | 62,428 | 23,614 | 23,481 | 31,651 | 38,392 Marion (_b_) | 4,285 | 463 | 2,240 | 4,454 | 6,309 Marshall (_b_) | 4,931 | 2,340 | 5,358 | 8,118 | 13,318 Mobile | 440 | 317 | 1 | 24 | 116 Monroe (_a_) | 18,226 | 6,172 | 10,421 | 15,919 | 17,101 Montgomery (_a_)| 58,880 | 25,517 | 31,732 | 45,827 | 39,202 Morgan (_b_) | 6,326 | 4,389 | 6,133 | 6,227 | 9,313 Perry (_a_) | 44,603 | 13,449 | 21,627 | 24,873 | 29,690 Pickens (_a_) | 29,843 | 8,263 | 17,283 | 18,904 | 21,485 Pike (_b_) | 24,527 | 7,192 | 15,136 | 25,879 | 34,757 Randolph (_b_) | 6,427 | 2,246 | 7,475 | 10,348 | 17,148 Russell (_a_) | 38,728 | 20,796 | 19,442 | 20,521 | 21,174 Shelby (_b_) | 6,463 | 2,194 | 6,643 | 7,308 | 10,193 St. Clair (_b_) | 4,189 | 1,244 | 6,028 | 7,136 | 9,411 Sumter (_a_) | 36,584 | 11,647 | 22,211 | 25,768 | 31,906 Talladega | 18,243 | 5,697 | 11,832 | 15,686 | 21,563 Tallapoosa (_b_)| 17,399 | 5,446 | 14,161 | 20,337 | 24,955 Tuscaloosa | 26,035 | 6,458 | 11,137 | 13,008 | 20,041 Walker (_b_) | 2,766 | 928 | 2,754 | 3,211 | 4,746 Washington | 3,449 | 1,803 | 1,246 | 2,030 | 2,213 Wilcox (_a_) | 48,749 | 20,095 | 26,745 | 32,582 | 35,005 Winston (_b_) | 352 | 205 | 568 | 1,464 | 3,686 |----------|----------|----------|----------|--------- Totals | 989,955 | 429,482 | 699,654 | 915,210 |1,093,697 ====================================================================== APPENDIX II REGISTRATION OF VOTERS UNDER THE NEW CONSTITUTION ============================================== | MALES OF VOTING |REGISTERED VOTERS | AGE IN 1900 | IN 1905 |----------------------------------- COUNTY | White | Black | White | Black ----------|--------|--------|--------|-------- Autauga | 1,524 | 2,311 | 1,554 | 35 Baldwin | 2,096 | 991 | 1,390 | 206 Barbour | 2,889 | 4,201 | 2,846 | 46 Bibb | 2,701 | 1,598 | 2,725 | 59 Blount | 4,401 | 417 | 3,182 | -- Bullock | 1,415 | 5,168 | 1,291 | 14 Butler | 2,766 | 2,617 | 2,739 | 2 Calhoun | 5,390 | 2,380 | 4,892 | 130 Chambers | 3,441 | 3,380 | 3,098 | 28 Cherokee | 3,896 | 702 | 3,004 | 27 Chilton | 2,852 | 707 | 2,970 | 1 Choctaw | 1,697 | 1,929 | 1,496 | 29 Clarke | 2,652 | 3,103 | 2,485 | 158 Clay | 3,220 | 393 | 3,501 | -- Cleburne | 2,565 | 181 | 2,280 | -- Coffee | 3,508 | 996 | 3,334 | -- Colbert | 2,927 | 2,030 | 2,233 | 22 Conecuh | 2,110 | 1,608 | 2,079 | 7 Coosa | 2,338 | 942 | 2,134 | -- Covington | 2,803 | 786 | 2,857 | 3 Crenshaw | 3,062 | 1,156 | 2,982 | -- Cullman | 3,359 | 5 | 4,641 | 4 Dale | 3,492 | 1,002 | 3,021 | 11 Dallas | 2,360 | 9,871 | 2,419 | 52 De Kalb | 4,819 | 226 | 4,388 | -- Elmore | 3,202 | 2,758 | 3,030 | 54 Escambia | 1,628 | 821 | 1,676 | 46 Etowah | 5,140 | 1,031 | 4,186 | 39 Fayette | 2,698 | 338 | 2,563 | 7 Franklin | 2,989 | 634 | 2,600 | 12 Geneva | 3,355 | 981 | 2,873 | 30 Greene | 852 | 4,344 | 739 | 104 Hale | 1,358 | 5,370 | 1,362 | 92 Henry } | 4,904 | 2,933 | 2,072 | -- Houston } | (new county) | 2,757 | -- Jackson | 5,939 | 731 | 4,704 | 73 Jefferson | 21,036 | 18,472 | 18,315 | 352 Lamar | 2,715 | 592 | 2,356 | 7 Lauderdale| 4,235 | 1,586 | 3,305 | 76 Lawrence | 2,761 | 1,426 | 2,367 | 49 Lee | 2,988 | 3,472 | 2,652 | 12 Limestone | 2,832 | 2,050 | 2,722 | 28 Lowndes | 1,121 | 6,455 | 1,085 | 57 Macon | 1,042 | 3,782 | 917 | 65 Madison | 5,788 | 4,397 | 4,479 | 112 Marengo | 2,095 | 6,143 | 2,043 | 302 Marion | 2,735 | 144 | 2,698 | 25 Marshall | 4,595 | 333 | 4,251 | -- Mobile | 7,934 | 7,371 | 7,295 | 193 Monroe | 2,307 | 2,570 | 2,178 | 40 Montgomery| 5,087 | 11,429 | 4,995 | 53 Morgan | 4,987 | 1,713 | 4,506 | 60 Perry | 1,574 | 5,028 | 1,659 | 90 Pickens | 2,408 | 2,846 | 2,217 | 111 Pike | 3,598 | 2,611 | 3,126 | 26 Randolph | 3,457 | 978 | 3,363 | 13 Russell | 1,433 | 3,961 | 1,170 | 191 Shelby | 3,611 | 1,672 | 3,712 | 19 St. Clair | 3,777 | 712 | 3,340 | 50 Sumter | 1,391 | 5,304 | 1,244 | 57 Talladega | 3,934 | 3,814 | 3,303 | 81 Tallapoosa| 4,185 | 2,056 | 4,166 | 33 Tuscaloosa| 5,100 | 3,413 | 4,153 | 165 Walker | 4,582 | 1,351 | 4,894 | 1 Washington| 1,386 | 1,179 | 1,339 | 53 Wilcox | 1,686 | 5,967 | 1,522 | 41 Winston | 1,884 | 3 | 1,833 | 1 |--------|--------|--------|-------- Totals |224,212 |181,471 |205,278 | 3,654 ============================================== Number of whites of voting age not registered, estimated at 45,000. Number of blacks of voting age not registered, estimated at 190,000. The following table, compiled by Hoffman, will show the total business of the bank, 1866 to 1874.[1225] ================================================================== YEAR| TOTAL DEPOSITS | DEPOSITS EACH | DUE DEPOSITORS | GAIN EACH | | YEAR | | YEAR ----|----------------|----------------|----------------|---------- 1866| $305,167 | $305,167 | $199,283 | $199,283 1867| 1,624,853 | 1,319,686 | 366,338 | 167,054 1868| 3,582,378 | 1,957,525 | 638,299 | 271,960 1869| 7,257,798 | 3,675,420 | 1,073,465 | 435,166 1870| 12,605,782 | 5,347,983 | 1,657,006 | 583,541 1871| 19,952,947 | 7,347,165 | 2,455,836 | 798,829 1872| 31,260,499 | 11,281,313 | 3,684,739 | 1,227,927 1873| ---- | ---- | 4,200,000 | ---- 1874| 55,000,000 | ---- | 3,013,670 | ---- ================================================================== In Alabama the depositors lost, for the time at least, $35,963 at Huntsville; $29,743 at Montgomery; $95,144 at Mobile. keywords: 1st; = =; = |; account; acts; administration; affairs; agents; aid; alabama; april; army; authorities; authority; belt; black; bonds; bureau; carpet; cases; cause; cent; church; churches; citizens; class; committee; conditions; confederate; congress; constitution; control; convention; cotton; counties; county; court; day; dec; democrats; doc; duty; education; election; feb; force; freedmen; general; good; government; governor; herald; history; home; house; influence; jan; journal; july; june; klux; labor; land; law; laws; leaders; league; left; legislature; life; little; majority; man; march; members; men; military; militia; miller; mobile; money; montgomery; negro; negroes; new; north alabama; northern; nov; number; oath; oct; officers; officials; opposed; order; ordinance; organization; party; pay; peace; people; persons; policy; pope; population; power; president; property; public; question; radical; reconstruction; regard; report; rept; republican; rights; road; rule; schools; secession; selma; senate; service; sess; slavery; slaves; smith; society; soldiers; southern; state; state bonds; state convention; state government; state officials; state rights; supplies; support; swayne; system; tax; teachers; tennessee; test; thought; time; trade; treasury; troops; union; united; united states; vol; vote; war; white; women; work; years; | | cache: 41680.txt plain text: 41680.txt item: #12 of 17 id: 41730 author: Avary, Myrta Lockett title: Dixie After the War An Exposition of Social Conditions Existing in the South, During the Twelve Years Succeeding the Fall of Richmond date: None words: 108621 flesch: 74 summary: All that Southern white men did, according to some ready scribes, was to sit around cross-roads stores, expectorate tobacco-juice, swap jokes, and abuse Yankees and niggers. He said: White men in this country are cutting each other's throats about you. keywords: army; black; captain; carolina; case; chapter; children; church; city; columbia; confederate; country; crime; dat; davis; day; death; door; family; father; federal; friends; general; general lee; going; good; government; governor; grant; hampton; hand; head; high; history; home; house; john; judge; know; ladies; land; law; lee; left; lewis; life; lincoln; little; man; men; military; miss; money; mrs; negroes; new; night; northern; oath; officer; order; party; people; place; president; public; race; read; rev; richmond; school; set; sherman; slavery; soldiers; son; south; southern; state; streets; things; thought; time; tuh; union; united; virginia; vote; want; war; washington; way; weitzel; white; wife; william; women; words; work; years; york; young cache: 41730.txt plain text: 41730.txt item: #13 of 17 id: 41857 author: Worthington, D. title: The Broken Sword; Or, A Pictorial Page in Reconstruction date: None words: 96386 flesch: 74 summary: Miss Alice is ergwine ter stan twixt yu und de jedge, dats who. Remember, old man, that father and I are still your friends; and when you are in trouble or distress come to us. keywords: agwine; alice; alice und; away; black; carpet; clarissa; colonel; country; cum; dare; dat dar; dat de; dat ole; dat white; dat yer; dat yu; day; days; de boss; de crick; de good; de grate; de kote; de lord; de munny; de ole; de po; de state; de time; de town; de war; de weddin; dead; dear; dem; den; dere; dey; dis; dis ole; door; dun und; eend; ef dat; ef de; ef yu; erbout; ergwine; ergwine ter; eyes; face; father; fire; fur; fur de; git; git de; god; good; government; haint; hands; hannah; head; heart; heer; home; house; house und; jess; jon; joshaway; joshua; judge; kase; kase de; king; know; laflin; lak dat; lak de; lak yu; law; life; little; love; man; man dat; man und; mars; marser und; men; miss; missis; mistress; mout; ned; negro; negroes; nigger; night; ob de; ober de; ole marser; ole missis; ond; outen de; people; poor; power; reconstruction; rite; seed; seymour; sho; sir; south; tell; ter; ter de; und; und cum; und dat; und de; und dis; und ef; und ole; und yu; way; white; wid dat; wid de; wun; wus; yer; yer und; young; yu de; yu dun; yu ergwine; yu mout cache: 41857.txt plain text: 41857.txt item: #14 of 17 id: 50295 author: Burgess, John William title: Reconstruction and the Constitution, 1866-1876 date: None words: 108012 flesch: 43 summary: The Congress passed the Act of the 28th of February, 1871, which so supplemented the Act of May 31st, 1870, as to place the whole control of the registrations and elections when and where Representatives to Congress should be chosen, in the hands of United States officers, the supervisors, and the deputy marshals, commissioners and judges of the United States courts. But to the apparent surprise of everybody and to the consternation of the Democrats, Justice Davis was chosen by the Illinois legislature, on the 25th of January, the day after the bill passed the Senate, and the day before it passed the House, United States Senator, and a few days after the bill passed the House, he accepted the position, which act involved his resignation at an early day of his judicial office; and as he was now to leave the bench and go into the political branch of the Government, as a Democratic Senator, elected by the Democrats of the Illinois legislature, there appeared to him an evident impropriety in his acting on the Commission as a representative of the unpolitical branch of the Government, and especially as that member upon whom the weightiest responsibility would fall, and who would, therefore, be expected to act with greatest political impartiality, and with an eye single to public justice. keywords: act; acts; amendment; bill; carolina; case; commission; committee; congress; constitution; convention; day; election; electoral; fourteenth; general; georgia; government; governor; grant; house; johnson; law; legislature; majority; members; military; negro; new; office; order; party; persons; power; president; proclamation; question; rebellion; reconstruction; representatives; republican; secretary; senate; sidenote; south; stanton; states government; time; union; united states; vote; war cache: 50295.txt plain text: 50295.txt item: #15 of 17 id: 6058 author: Tourgée, Albion Winegar title: Bricks Without Straw: A Novel date: None words: 160516 flesch: 80 summary: Den I axed de man dat bought de cotting ter gib it back ter me, but he wouldn't do dat, nohow, nor de money for it nuther. There was even then of record in the county of Horsford a deed of sale, bearing the hand and seal of P, Desmit, and executed little more than a year previously, conveying to one Peyton Winburn all the right, title, and interest of said Desmit, in and to a certain runaway negro boy named Nimbus. keywords: 'bout; 'em; ainslie; away; berry; black; bre'er; care; come; county; course; dar; dat; dat de; day; desmit; dey; dis; doubt; eliab; eyes; face; fact; family; fer; free; git; god; good; gwine ter; h'yer; half; hand; head; heart; hesden; hev; hill; home; hope; house; i'se; jes; jest; kase; knew; know; law; left; let; life; little; long; look; man; man dat; marse; matter; men; mind; miss; mollie; mother; moyne; mrs; nigger; nimbus; north; ole; pardee; people; place; plantation; power; race; red; regard; right; room; school; self; sheriff; slave; son; south; southern; state; ter; ter dat; ter de; things; think; thought; time; war; white; wid; wife; wing; woman; words; work; wuz; yer cache: 6058.txt plain text: 6058.txt item: #16 of 17 id: 8872 author: Schurz, Carl title: Report on the Condition of the South date: None words: 83656 flesch: 57 summary: If negroes walked away from the plantations, it was conclusive proof of the incorrigible instability of the negro, and the impracticability of free negro labor. If some individual negroes violated the terms of their contract, it proved unanswerably that no negro had, or ever would have, a just conception of the binding force of a contract, and that this system of free negro labor was bound to be a failure. keywords: authorities; authority; bureau; cases; citizens; city; country; day; district; duty; freedmen; general; good; government; governor; labor; louisiana; man; military; mississippi; negro; negroes; new; number; officers; order; people; persons; planters; power; present; public; question; report; right; slavery; south; spirit; state; system; things; time; union; united; war; white; work cache: 8872.txt plain text: 8872.txt item: #17 of 17 id: 99 author: Douglass, Frederick title: Collected Articles of Frederick Douglass date: None words: 8216 flesch: 68 summary: He took me to his home to spend the night, and in the morning went with me to Mr. David Ruggles, the secretary of the New York Vigilance Committee, a co-worker with Isaac T. Hopper, Lewis and Arthur Tappan, Theodore S. Wright, Samuel Cornish, Thomas Downing, Philip A. Bell, and other true men of their time. Many colored men, for no other crime than that of giving aid to a fugitive slave, have, like Charles T. Torrey, perished in prison. keywords: congress; escape; man; men; new; people; slave; slavery; state; time; work; york cache: 99.txt plain text: 99.txt