In many instances negroes and carpetbaggers were whipped and in rare instances shot or hanged.
It went on, however, until the Federal troops were withdrawn, the carpetbaggers left the country, and all of the State governments were in the control of the white men of the South.
Cose dat made Sumter County a mighty onhealthy place for carpetbaggers an' uppity niggers.
After the war many Negroes stayed with their masters and he remembers that some of the carpetbaggers came through his plantation and tried to make the ex-slaves stake off the land, saying that half of it belonged to them.
The Alabama Reconstruction Legislature was the first to make an investigation of Ku Klux Klan and Sibley and Coon were two carpetbaggers active in the investigation.
Whilst in Jackson, the capital of Mississippi, I was offered the opportunity of seeing the legislators who made our laws, composed mainly of carpetbaggers and negroes.
Seeing nothing but poverty and wretchedness before us, it was determined to rescue the State from the hands of the carpetbaggers and negroes by a compromise with the freedmen.
Thus was the State redeemed from the hands of the corrupt carpetbaggers and corrupt followers of the United States army, and all cried: "Amen!
Several of the state superintendents were negroes, and others were carpetbaggers dependent upon negro votes.
Where separate schools were provided, the teachers were often carpetbaggers who strove "to make treason odious.
These men had led in the contest against the scalawags and the carpetbaggers and many had suffered thereby.
General Swayne promulgated an order recognizing as agents of the bureau former civil magistrates who could and would obtain endorsement of negroes; but, as a rule, carpetbaggers filled the places.
This was prior to the advent of carpetbaggers and organization in Alabama of the Republican party.
New appointments were nearly always carpetbaggers and native radicals who could take the "ironclad" oath.
The machinery of government and politics was all in radical hands--the carpetbaggers and scalawags, who were numerous enough to fill practically all the offices.
Later, after the scalawags had for the most part left the radicals, there were contests among the carpetbaggers themselves for the control of the Negro vote and the distribution of spoils.
Every state, except perhaps Virginia, was under the control of a few able leaders from the North generally called carpetbaggers and of a few native white radicals contemptuously designated scalawags.
The Negroes in the conventions were anxious for free schools; the conservatives were willing; but the carpetbaggers and a few mulatto leaders insisted in several States upon mixed schools.
The agents of the Northern churches were not greatly different from other carpetbaggers and adventurers taking advantage of the general confusion to seize a little power.
In Florida, for example, the carpetbaggers framed a comprehensive Equal Rights Law, passed it, and presented it to Governor Reed, who was known to be opposed to such legislation.
There were a few thousand carpetbaggers in each State, with, at first, a much larger number of scalawags.
Frequently the carpetbaggers brought up the issue in order to rid the radical ranks of the scalawags who were opposed to equal rights.
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.
City and county taxes, wherecarpetbaggers were in control, increased in the same way.
Resentment at the methods employed by the Northern religious carpetbaggers was strong among the Southern whites.
Such pacific methods were successful to a considerable degree until the carpetbaggers and scalawags were placed in office under the Reconstruction Acts.
In de meantime, carpetbaggers and scalawags had put devilment in some of dem ig'nant niggers and dey thought dat if dey leave, de U.
He scared de Yankees and Carpetbaggers and all sech folks as dem away from our country.
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