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  "The Birth of a Nation" Produced and Copyrighted by The Epoch Producing Corporation, to Whom the Publishers Desire to Express Their Thanks and Appreciation for Permission to Use the Pictures


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  | | | | | | | SOUTH | SOUTH | | | | | | | | | +----------------------+----------+-------+---------+-------+-------+--------+ | | | | | | |


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  the Constitution of the United States--Local Government Under the Constitution of the United States--"State


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  The Reports of the Committee on Reconstruction--The Idea of a New Electorate as the Basis and Condition of Reconstruction--


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  The Assignment of the Commanding Generals to the Military Districts Created by the Reconstruction Acts


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  | | | PER | PER | OF | | | MILE | MILE | ROAD | --------------|------|-------|-----------|-------------| Alabama


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id: 16158
title: The Facts of Reconstruction
author: Lynch, John Roy
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  parties in the State, for it was a well-known fact that the Republican party not only elected the State ticket by a majority of about 30,000 Republican Legislative Caucus as a candidate for United States Senator Republican caucus nominees for United States Senators,--Alcorn, Ames and FUSION OF DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS IN THE STATE ELECTION OF 1873. FUSION OF DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS IN THE STATE ELECTION OF 1873. As soon as the result of the election was known, the candidacy of B.K. Bruce, for United States Senator to succeed Senator Ames, was announced. order." To enable the Democrats to carry the State a Republican majority Cassidy had been elected a member of the State Senate as a Democrat. Sessions was elected to the State Senate as a Republican to serve out fact that he had been elected to the State Senate as a Democrat, and year the Republicans of his State elected him Governor, which was a


id: 29942
title: A Letter to Hon. Charles Sumner, with ''Statements'' of Outrages upon Freedmen in Georgia
author: Pierson, Hamilton W. (Hamilton Wilcox)
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  his door he told me that if I died he would pay my wife $50. in the last twenty years to both white and colored people at National Cemetery, Andersonville, Georgia, says: in the employ of the Government, at work in the National Cemetery, twenty-six or thirty armed white men, went to the houses of all "Teacher''s Home" and the "Freedmen''s School," rallied and protected The night I saw them they went to the house of Mr. Henry Mr. Williams states that Mr. Souber came to his house some two or three that Mr. Souber came to his house while he was away and told her we must stockades at Andersonville, as prisoners of war never suffered and died upon the colored people in any five years of slavery as I heard and saw bearing this inscription: "National Cemetery, Andersonville, Georgia." National Cemetery at Andersonville, Georgia. So we celebrated Emancipation Day in Andersonville, Georgia.


id: 23747
title: Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War
author: Taylor, Richard
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  and Staff--A Federal Fleet and Army ascend Red River--Battle of well as generals; but officers command the armies of their governments. no officer of the general staff of the old United States army had seen so At nightfall of the second day in this camp, an order came from General that General Banks, the Federal commander, was at Winchester, twenty The following day my command was moved ten miles north on the pike the Federal General Shields, who, in command of a considerable force to Persuaded that the Federal commander at New Orleans, General Benjamin position to fall on the enemy''s rear and capture any small force left on The enemy''s troops were under the command of General yet General Banks officially reports that his army left Pleasant Hill at place has so demoralized General Banks''s army that the troops have no men of General A.J. Smith''s command from Sherman''s army.


id: 26240
title: The Clansman: An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan
author: Dixon, Thomas, Jr.
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  Elsie saw the look of helpless appeal in the mother''s face and hurried Elsie led Mrs. Cameron direct from the White House to the War Department. A grim smile twitched the old man''s lips as he said: Yet her hand in hours of love, when no eye save God''s could see, had led sly answering smile, but the old man waiting at the head of the table saw "Well, upon my soul," said Ben, taking a deep breath and looking at Elsie, The old man raised his massive head and looked to the door leading toward "I am very sorry to see you leave the home you love so dearly, Mrs. Lenoir," said the Northern girl, taking her extended hand. "Ben Cameron dare me to come about de house," said the other voice. "For the present," said the old man meditatively, "not a word to a living "God knows what this country''s coming to--I don''t," said the old man


id: 2053
title: The American Republic: Its Constitution, Tendencies, and Destiny
author: Brownson, Orestes Augustus
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  forth no theory of government in general, or of the United States in united in the senate, and collectively constitute and govern the state. right of society to found the state, institute government, and exercise people as individuals creating civil society and government, but a law made one sovereign political people, state, or nation, and that the the supreme powers of government between the States in their united of the United States, or the complete national government; for neither powers of the State or particular governments; but they are the United The division of power is not between a NATIONAL government and State Union, is called the Government of the United States; the particular governs supremely all the people of the United States and Territories General government takes care of public authority and rights; the State the political or sovereign territory and people of the United States.


id: 99
title: Collected Articles of Frederick Douglass
author: Douglass, Frederick
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  It was the custom in the State of Maryland to require the free colored answered somewhat the purpose of free papers--describing his person, and to the sea in ships." "Free trade and sailors'' rights" just then afternoon, I inquired of a colored man how I could get on to New York. journey, I found myself in the big city of New York, a FREE MAN--one more blood," I lived more in that one day than in a year of my slave life. a letter written to a friend soon after reaching New York, I said: "I people of New York were not to be trusted; that there were hired men of In the country from which I came, a white man holding no slaves only a freeman, but a free working-man, and no "master" stood ready at Federal authority States into which no loyal man from the North may


id: 6058
title: Bricks Without Straw: A Novel
author: Tourgée, Albion Winegar
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  ter mind ''em dat der daddy wuz jes anudder man''s critter one time. "Pshaw, now," said Nimbus, "'' what sort o'' way is dat ter hev all dis yer time, an'' now I''se gwine ter hab my way fer a little I tell yer what, ''Liab, it''s gwine ter be great times fer us niggers, used ter wonder dat some pore white man like Marse War'', dat knowed "All right," said Nimbus coolly; "jes yer pay my wife what''s due "Wal," said Nimbus, "ef dat''s what yer say, we''ll hev ter let de "Glad ter know it, Berry," said Nimbus, shaking the other''s hand "How de debble yer come ter sign sech a paper, Berry?" said Nimbus. wants ter try an'' whip Nimbus, jes let ''em come on," he said, "I am afraid you are right, Nimbus," said the white man, with a "Dat''s what I want ter know, Miss Mollie," said the woman.


id: 8872
title: Report on the Condition of the South
author: Schurz, Carl
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  there is not a military force to protect him." (Accompanying document No. 32.) Mr. William King, a citizen of Georgia, well known in that State, general assertions, quoting instances in which negro laborers were working treated in every way contrary to the requirements of General Orders No. 129, from the War Department." (Accompanying document No. 25.) As late as When Southern people speak of the insolence of the negro, they generally in the State courts or to have all cases in which colored people were of the negro and of free labor in the south--the Freedmen''s Bureau--is people assume that free negro labor will not work, and therefore they are of what the general good at the present time requires in the way of State The freedmen and colored people of Mobile are, as a general thing, suffrage to every man in the State, and the negroes will elect officers to


id: 36666
title: The Sins of the Father: A Romance of the South
author: Dixon, Thomas, Jr.
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  years old, and one with the quickest step and brightest eye, a little man The man drew the soft arms down, held them a moment and looked into the "Are you one of Norton''s men?" the old man asked angrily. young bosom, and walked past the man smiling into his face a look of Norton turned away and the Governor laid his trembling hand on his arm: "Yes, I believe you," she said with a far-away look in her eyes. Norton placed his hands in his pockets, and looked him over from head to "Do you know de way, sah?" Andy asked, scratching his head. "Hit''s des lak I tells ye, Mister Tom. I ain''t seed dat quare look in his Andy turned, looked into her smiling face for a moment and they both broke The boy looked at his father''s trembling hand and into his glittering eyes


id: 37244
title: Kitty''s Conquest
author: King, Charles
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  glad of any excuse to talk with her for hours, "the colonel, him and Mr. Peyton, went over to Holly Springs three days ago; but the smash-up on way; and the moment the horses came, bade us good night, swung into paying little or no attention to Miss Kitty, who is seated on the old good-night; his orderly came round with the horses, and Pauline went out "Amory," said Harrod, "mount your horse and come over to dinner with us. touched Kitty''s hand or spoken a sentence to her by way of welcome, Mr. Amory took his leave. looked closely at me, said ''Captain Amory?'' and handed me a note. And yet that evening, when Pauline and Colonel Summers came to see Mrs. Amory for a few moments, I was still there. seated Miss Summers and Kitty, behind whom could be seen Vinton, Amory,


id: 39720
title: The Abolition Crusade and Its Consequences: Four Periods of American History
author: Herbert, Hilary A. (Hilary Abner)
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  an agitation in the North against the existence of slavery in the South, against the existence of slavery in her sister States of the South, and array the North, as a section, against the South, that Southern Whigs to conceive that the Southern States of this Union, whose people in 1830 on both slavery in the South and the Constitution of the United States, of new slave States into the Union. upon the constitutional rights of slave-holders; and Southern people when he made in the United States Senate his anti-slavery "higher law" shall become alike lawful in all the States--old as well as new--North slavery in the South, and he thus stated it, in a letter to his friend, controversy between the North and the South, "State-rights" became the the new claim, that slavery in the South was the concern of the North, Lincoln, South no more responsible for slavery than North, 49;


id: 50295
title: Reconstruction and the Constitution, 1866-1876
author: Burgess, John William
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  Per Centum "State" Governments--Reconstruction in Louisiana under Mr. Lincoln''s Plan--The New Orleans Convention--The Election of a Congress to Count the Electoral Vote from any "State" which had Passed "State" government had been elected under the amended constitution. the President of the United States to sign a proposed constitutional the military power of the President, and on the acts of the "States" Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any constitutions to the President of the United States, who should Reconstruction Acts for persons who had held office under a "State" under the Constitution and laws of the United States gave the President laws of the United States the President has no power to remove {171} in the War Office, and since the President of the United States was the the "States" and those of Congress over the election of the President


id: 33058
title: Gabriel Tolliver: A Story of Reconstruction
author: Harris, Joel Chandler
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  In the case of Nan and Gabriel, it may be said by one who knows, that, "Everybody knows," said Gabriel, "that Miss Polly Gaither lives in the Margaret Gaither has come home!" When Gabriel entered the room, Nan had "It happened, Nan, before you and Gabriel were born," said Mrs. Lumsden. Miss Fanny went home, and in no long time Neighbour Tomlin''s carriage "My name is Margaret, too," said the young woman, after returning Mrs. Lumsden''s salutation, and bowing to Gabriel. "Well, Nan, I''m very sorry," said Gabriel, by way of saying something. Nan said nothing more until she bade Gabriel good-bye at her father''s They invited some of the older men not long ago, and mother heard Mr. Tomlin say that Gabriel would make a great orator some day. "I know better," said Nan; "you never had a mean thought in your life. "All right," said Cephas, and turned away without looking at Nan. She


id: 35559
title: The Reconstruction of Georgia Studies in History, Economics and Public Law, Vol. 13, No. 3, 1901
author: Woolley, Edwin C. (Edwin Campbell)
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  provided for a general state election on the following November 15th, and Thus the President, having reconstructed the state government, had should pass an act admitting the reconstructed state to Congressional constitutions, elect new governments, enfranchise the negroes, and That the Reconstruction Acts required communities not states to ratify a Congress and officers of the new state government.[97] This election Republican governor was elected; but in the state senate the seats were governments the act of March 23 had provided that the new constitutions prescribed in the state constitution), and the presiding officers elected. regularly elected to the Senate of the United States by the legislature of amendment in Georgia will not be a state legislature at the time; but it never been a member of Congress or of a state legislature, nor held any United States soldiers were acting as a committee in the legislature of


id: 41680
title: Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama
author: Fleming, Walter L. (Walter Lynwood)
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  of the United States, the Governor of Alabama, and later, the President of government of the United States has in north Alabama any and all rights Alabama, and Wilson organized several other negro regiments in the state United States" in Madison County, Alabama, to enter the Confederate army. state legislature authorized the governor to impress negroes to work on Freedmen''s Bureau and the state commissioner issued, to black and white, States cotton agent, New York, while that from north Alabama was sent to state of Alabama by act of the Federal government, therefore slavery no Alabama, there were not half a dozen respectable white men in the state By state law and military order the negro was now freed from slavery and The people of the north Alabama white counties, the hilly section of the A state convention of negroes was called by white Radical politicians to


id: 41857
title: The Broken Sword; Or, A Pictorial Page in Reconstruction
author: Worthington, D.
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  seed her und Miss Alice cum outen de grate house, a fairly toting Mars white fokses, und bress de Lord, dat time haint nebber cum yit.''" "I haint agwine to do dat, nudder," saucily replied the old negro. white man, kase I kaint heer good no how, und ef yer puts dat ar bug in "Miss Alice," Clarissa asked quite feelingly, "Haint yu dun und fotched eend ob de moon wus rite red lak, dat yer mout look out fur wars und "Pend upon it dat po ole white man has dun und gon plum strakted. Twant fur Miss Alice dat ole man und all tother land?'' I dun cum back now Miss Alice to slave fur yu und ole Marser "Great God," exclaimed the broken hearted old man, "and Laflin the marser, lak dat progigle man in de scriptur, und I''m ergwine ter tell Old marsa dun und said, ole nigger yer


id: 41730
author: Avary, Myrta Lockett
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  topsy-turvy conditions generally, domestic upheaval, negroes voting, Black Old men, women and children, and negro servants fought the General Weitzel and stated that Mrs. Lee was an invalid, unable to walk, General Shepley conducted him to our White House, where President Lincoln North simply don''t know how things are down here." A lady friend of Mrs. S.''s tells me that she knew a Northern officer--(giving his name)--who issue, it may be cited that General Wilde confiscated the home of Mrs. Robert Toombs to the uses of the Freedmen''s Bureau, ordering her to give plantation life of the South, the white man and the negro made the best In religious life, after the war, the negro''s and the white man''s path negroes came in charge of schools for blacks, and as Northern people who Negroes go North, white Northerners come South. The old negro and the white man stood more

title:
  Dixie After the War An Exposition of Social Conditions Existing in the South, During the Twelve Years Succeeding the Fall of Richmond


