The few Scalawagswho trained with negroes to get office didn't count.
A new and far more dangerous order of Scalawags has arisen--the man who boldly preaches the omnipotence of the dollar and weighs every policy of state or society by one standard only, will it pay in dollars and cents?
There were many vacancies and few white Radicals to fill them; the scalawags thought that the negro ought to be content with voting.
The scalawags demanded separate schools for the races, but pressure was brought to bear and most of them gave way.
In several instances the Democrats caused to be summoned the prominent scalawags and carpet-baggers, who usually gave testimony damaging to the Radical cause.
In the white counties the extreme scalawags had a better chance for office, and most of the moderate reconstructionists fell away at once, leaving the spoils to the Radicals.
Most scalawags were opposed to his reelection, but it was known that he controlled the negro members, and to prevent division all agreed to support him.
The scalawags did not foresee that to the carpet-baggers would fall the lion's share of the plunder, owing to their control over the negro vote.
The carpet-baggers and extreme scalawags of the convention resolved themselves into a body for the nomination of candidates for office.
The white carpet-baggers and scalawags never formed a large section of the Radical party and constantly decreased in numbers,--the natives returning to the white party, the aliens returning to the North.
The south Alabama leaders tried to secure a part of the negro vote, and urged that imprudent talk be avoided and that carpet-baggers and scalawags be let alone, and the negroes be treated kindly as being responsible for none of the evils.
Some reformers wanted the test made, but too many scalawags were bitterly opposed to such a step, to say nothing of the Ku Klux Klan.
Where all the red and white and yellowscalawags over the mountains is gathered," he answered.
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 were there long before them scalawags were counterfeiting inside that cave.
A man's family's not safe with such scalawags prowlin' the country!
They showed the greatest repugnance to the scalawags and carpet-baggers, and all white Republicans generally, who were intimidated, persecuted and driven out of all participation in the reconstruction of the States.
Even colored men, carpet-baggers and scalawags were either heartily or formally Republicans, and could be trusted by the Washington authorities in acting loyally and faithfully in the discharge of their duties at least.
Then for a time, at least, followed a pause in the obstructing work of the reconstruction of the late rebellious States, and the governments by colored legislators, scalawags and carpet-baggers went on as before.
Frequently the carpetbaggers brought up the issue in order to rid the radical ranks of the scalawags who were opposed to equal rights.
Such pacific methods were successful to a considerable degree until the carpetbaggers and scalawags were placed in office under the Reconstruction Acts.
Of the twenty men who served as governors, eight were scalawags and twelve were carpetbaggers, men who were abler than the scalawags and who had much more than an equal share of the spoils.
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.
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.
An exception, however, was made in favor of the scalawags who had supported reconstruction and whose disabilities had been removed by Congress.
Usually the scalawags declared hostilities after they found that the carpetbaggers had control of the Negroes and the inside track on the way to the best state and federal offices.
Well I found the little pie-eater in Denver O K but so gaunt he wont hardly throw a shadow and what can you expect of scalawags like Miller and Doble who don't know how to treat a horse.
Looks like the law's made to protect scalawagsinstead of honest folks," Dave told West.
The sly scalawags that sell you the goods won't live up to their contracts.
When I bought Gauntmoor, the London scalawags that sold it to me gave me distinctly to understand that this was a Haunted Castle.
The Judge said he did not intend his remarks on scalawags for the Colonel, and did not know the Colonel was a Mason.
Then you can imagine how some of these scalawags appeared.
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.
Out of it come to de top, de carpetbag, de scalawags and then de Ku Klux.
If scalawags find that their duties will be performed for them when they neglect them, that's all they want.
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