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Reading Response #22: Major Problems Ch. 13 (Document #6 and #7 (Interst…
Reading Response #22: Major Problems Ch. 13
Document #1: Senator Carl Schurz of Missouri Condemns Reconstruction
Public business remains an unknown world to souther black voters and office holders
Counterbalancing policies should have been put in place to counter the vast number of uneducated people no entered into the public realm, with power to vote
We have put ourselves in the state we are in with poor people in a place of new power, and those who held office to a place of "worse than passive attitude." (428)
Document #2: James S. Pike Provides a Harsh Critique of Reconstruction in South Caroline
"The only authority to which these miscreants pay the least difference is the Federal Government; for its power and its countenance are requisite to the success of many to their own operations." (429)
"They cover Republican Philanthropic men who wish to see the capacity and better qualities of the black man fairly tested in the bold experiment of his sudden emancipation and enfranchisement." (429)
Document #3: Representative L. Q. C. Lamar of Mississippi Assails Reconstruction
"The suffering people on whom the taxes were laid could not exercise the slightest control, either at to the amount imposed or the basis upon which they were laid." (430)
"These Governments are in external form civil, but they are in their essential principle military. They are called local governments, but in reality they are Federal executive agencies." (431)
Document #4: Governor William P. Kellogg of Louisiana Demands Punishment for the Coushatta Assassins
Those affected by this murder deserve a $5,000 reward each
Document #5: Governor Adelbert Ames Deplores the Violence in Mississippi
Premeditated riot occurred, caused by those in the democratic party
"Last night, this morning and today squads of white men are scouring the county killing Negroes." (433)
"White Liners"
Document #6 and #7
Interst in the fortunes of southern republicans
Democracy of the state was disarmed, leaving no hope of nomination in opposition to the republican party
Mississippi governance is filled with fraud and violence
better judgement and cooperation of citizens should lead to a better running of the state