The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-10-20
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 After the campaign from the Kaploani | to Appomattox, a campaign Wnlch coS' l Grant l24,oo0 men, or two eh men LOT troons l laid down their arms, believing the wa was over. General Grant, in sprIt oL extreme magnanimity, had granted Lee 5 starved and weary veterans than went ue to T their homes to change the cTords into piow- shares in an endeavor to retrieve tnSiI shattered fortunes. They founo heary everything in ruin. but the land was s there, reasonably free from debt. ana shortly those of the negroes Wno mao been scattered returned to thelr olo QuaI- ters on the plantation and were rHauy tho,s to resume their old relations 10 lnelr former masters. This relation MT Page compares to a tribal relation. on the one side was the duty of protection ana ct maintenance; on the other paru pho Ipe res turned to the plantations were ready 10 resume these relations. except that @ @the laborer received wages or a snare or tne crop instead of various, recompenses ne had heretofore received, such as care and support in case of sickness ana 0lu age. clothing etc. Not only were the men of the South ready to engage Tn the upbuilding of the country, but 10 ac- cept ioyally the result of the war and to bear true allegiance to the FeueraI government. In this General Lee set an example and his precepts urging loyalty
 
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 The first rude shock to the dream of peace and reconciliation was the assaSsl- ,i nation nf Lincoln bv a madman ms gave to the extremists in the North thsIs opportunity against the South, whlcn they hated. Then came the brutal treat ment of Jefferson Davis and the indiSni- ties heaped upon him in prison whlcn the Southern people construed as intend cd to hmniiiate them all. Thus the bloody chasm which was beginning to close reopened aud remained open TOT the next ten years. e,.,. Carolina Daniel Webster said or the Southern men: They have an aptness for command which makes the Southern gentleman wherever he goes, not a peer turned from the war their spirits un- conquered their pride of race. always intense unimpaired and masterful in spirit by the result of the war their courage was heightened and their self reliance, if possible. more pronounced than ever The sentiments Of the tWo most kindly nature. Then the Freed mems Bureau was established. and the work of humiliating the whites and changing the negro from an industrious,
 
 drone or an insolent politician went for ward. Rations were distributed to them lavishly, and it was no longer necessary for them to work. Their only thought was holding office and obtaining 70 acres of land and mule from the government. In his article in the Atlantic Monthly Governor Chamberlain says that when he became Governor of South Carolina he found 20 trial justices In the State. appointed by his predecessor. who could neither read nor write. The white men were disfranehised and the negro put over them. This would have been intol- erable enough, but worse happened. The carcass of the South attracted vultures from far and wide. Camp followers vul- lures and the very outcastS or society teachers and political leaders of the ne sroes. The worst of the lot. being more interruptions in what they promised the credulous negroes. were always the most successful. A period of disorder. outrage and robbery ensued which has not been clergyman who had then church in the South said that when he went to his night services he had to go armed. Even funerals were liable to Interruption and consideration the destruction of life dur ing the Civil War, that great ordeal was a merciful dispensation of Provi- dence compared with reconstruction. The State treasury of Louisiana was, s1Ns .Nooooo. In Mississippi the horde increased taxation fourteenfold. and one-hfth Of all the land in the State was confiscated for the non-pavment of excessive taxes and distributed among nual tax levy increased from $2o0 GOO to & 0n0 GOO. and the value of DroDertv de- creased in proportion to The increase of taxes. Of the other States there is the