IN the first volume of this work documents were presented to illustrate the problems of Reconstruction and the attempts made to solve them, ending with the restoration of the seceded states to the Union. In this volume the aim is to illustrate the working out of Reconstruction in the South, with special reference to race relations, political morality, and economic, educational and religious matters. Some material is included to illustrate later phases of certain problems of Reconstruction. Legal and official documents are fewer in this volume than in the former one, more points of controversy arise in the period covered, and feeling was more intense, consequently, the psychological element to be considered is more important. As to origin the various documents may be roughly classified, according to bias or inclination, thus: State laws, 7; Federal laws, 9; Court decisions, 6; Northern Radical, 51; Northern Conservative, 36; Southern Conservative, 121 (including 4 "Old Whigs" and 10 negroes); Southern Radical, 76 ("carpetbaggers," 26; "scalawags," 20; negroes, 30); Southern Unionist, 10; Southern "Reform" Republican, 5; foreigners, 7; unclassified, 10. Parts of Chapters vii, viii, and xii have been taken from a series of pamphlets, now out of print, published in 1904, entitled West Virginia University Documents Relating to Reconstruction. For encouragement and assistance in issuing that series which grew into this collection, my thanks are due especially to President D. B. Purinton and Professor W. T. Barbe of West Virginia University. To others also, to whom acknowledgments were made in the first volume, I am indebted for courtesies while at work on this one. West Virginia University, Morgantown, January, 1907. WALTER L. FLEMING CONTENTS OF VOLUME II 1 (4) High price for a governor. (5) South Carolina supreme court. (6) County officers in Mississippi. (7) Justices of the peace in North Carolina. (8) Complaint of a "poor, persecuted Unionist." (9) Carpetbaggers in Louisiana. (10) The Republican party in the South. (12) "The Smelling Committee." (14) Keeping money in the state. (15) "What are you willing to pay?" (4) Writ of habeas corpus suspended in South Carolina. (5) The election of a Senator. Federal interference under the Enforcement Laws. Section 7. The Washington administration and the Dual (4) Either civil war or military rule. (7) The battle in New Orleans. (10) Conditions after the revolution. (11) An army officer's report on conditions in Louisiana. (12) Legislature broken up by troops. (13) Sheridan's "Banditti" telegram. (1) An appeal from the freedmen. (2) "Shall the negro be educated?" (3) Why the negroes should be educated. (4) The Southern churches and negro education. (5) Southern whites should teach negroes. Section 3. Northern aid to negro education (1) The desire of the blacks for education. (2) Bureau schools in North Carolina. (3) A Northern teacher and a Southern editor. (4) A foreigner's observations. |