THE FATE OF THE CARPETBAGGER AND THE SCALAWAG

[Cartoon by Ryland Randolph in the "Independent Monitor," Tuscaloosa, Alabama, September 1, 1868; from copy in possession of the Alabama Department of Archives and History]

The carpetbagger from Ohio was Rev. A. S. Lakin, who had just been elected president of the University of Alabama; and the scalawag was Dr. N. B. Cloud, Superintendent of Public Instruction of Alabama. Both were driven away from the University by the Klan.

RECONSTRUCTION

Political, Military, Social,
Religious, Educational & Industrial
1865 to the Present Time

BY

WALTER L. FLEMING, Ph. D.

PROFESSOR OF HISTORY IN WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY

With facsimiles

VOLUME I

THE

STANFORD
LIBRARIES

Cleveland, Ohio

The Arthur H. Clark Company

1906
H

TO MY HISTORY TEACHERS

GEORGE PETRIE

of Alabama

AND

WILLIAM ARCHIBALD DUNNING

of New York