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An exception, however, was made in favor of the scalawags who had supported reconstruction and whose disabilities had been removed by Congress. President Grant was anxious to complete the reconstruction and recommended to Congress that the constitutions of Virginia and Mississippi be re-submitted to the people with a separate vote on the disfranchising sections.
The sanguinary revolution in the State of Mississippi in 1875 was claimed to be in the interest of good administration and honest government; it was an attempt to wrest the State from the control of dishonest men, negroes, carpet baggers, and scalawags, and place it in control of intelligent, pure, and honest white men. With that end in view, Geo.
Chester did not reply, pretending that he did not understand English. Uncle John grew more angry. "You young scalawags," he shouted, "what are you trying to do? Have some fun with me? I want to tell you this is no place nor time for fun. I want to get out of here." Hal and Chester each was afraid to give Uncle John a signal for fear it might be seen and Colonel Anderson made no move to interfere.
These considerations had much to do with the return of scalawags to the "white man's party" and the retirement of carpetbaggers from Southern politics. There was no longer anything in it, they said; let the Negro have it! It was under these conditions that the "white man's party" carried the elections in Alabama, Arkansas, and Texas in 1874, and Mississippi in 1875.
As we rose into the more rugged country we passed more than one charred cabin that told its silent story of Indian massacre. Only on the scattered hill farms women and boys and old men were working in the fields, all save the scalawags having gone to join Rutherford.
"They're pretty critters," said the old woman, running her eyes over the three horses. "Be they Mister Ward's?" "We all be Mister Ward's," answered Ump, screwing his mouth to one side and imitating the old carpet-weaver's voice. "Bless my life," said the old woman, looking us up and down, "Mister Ward has a fine chance of scalawags." We laughed and the old woman's face wrinkled into smiles.
"Sydney ducks" from the criminal colonies; "shoulder strikers" direct from the tough wards of New York; long, lean, fever-haunted crackers from the Georgia mountains or the Louisiana canebrakes; Pike County desperadoes; long-haired men from the trapping countries; hard-fisted, sardonic state of Maine men fresh from their rivers; and Indian fighters from the Western Reserve; grasping, shrewd commercial Yankees; fire-eating Southern politicians; lawyers, doctors, merchants, chiefs, and thiefs, the well-educated and the ignorant, the high-minded and the scalawags, all dumped down together on a sand hill to work out their destinies; a city whose precedents, whose morals, whose laws, were made or adapted on the spot; where might in some form or another revolver, money, influence made its only right; whose history ranged in three years the gamut of human passion, strife, and development; whose background was the fabled El Dorado whence the gold in unending floods poured through its sluices.
These, however, were for the most part scalawags; the most respectable whites would not seek an amnesty which they could secure only by self-stultification.* It was the pressure of public opinion against white disfranchisement and the necessity for meeting the Liberal Republican arguments which caused the passage of the Act of 1872.
The cold water stopped for a moment the delirious muttering of the young man. But the big eyes that stared into hers did not associate his nurse with the present. "I done remembered you, 'Lindy, like I promised. I'm a-followin' them scalawags yet," he murmured. "His sister's name was Melindy," explained Prince. The girl nodded. She was rubbing gently the boy's wrist with her wet handkerchief.
"It won't take place without mine, if I know it," exclaimed McBane, starting for the door. "Hold on a minute, captain," exclaimed Carteret. "There's more at stake in this matter than the life of a black scoundrel. Wellington is in the hands of negroes and scalawags. What better time to rescue it?" "It's a trifle premature," replied the general.
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