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Posted 2005-02-26, 09:12 AM
in reply to zonalon's post starting "HAHA! WRONG!
Did you even read any..."
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zonalon said:
HAHA! WRONG!
Did you even read any of my posts? One delegate to the Tennessee Constitutional Convention stated that the only right the Rebels had was to be hung. Worsening the post war situation were the infamous Carpetbaggers and Scalawags, who sought personal profit and political power by exploiting the plight of both the freed Negroes and conquered Whites. The Radical Republicans declared the Southern States would have to be re-constructed before they could be re-admitted into the Union. Until then, the ex-Confederates had no rights of citizenship. Southern whites were completely disenfranchised with no legal standing. They could not vote, hold public office, or petition for the redress of grievances. In an effort to stop the lawlessness, the South was divided into five military districts and marshal law declared. Through out the South, freed Negroes formed the Union League and Black Militias and in most areas were given the task of enforcing marshal law. Led by corrupt officers and self serving politicians, the Union League became the most violent and murderous arm of the reconstruction to Blacks and Whites alike.
The North opressed us both.
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Well, no shit. The south broke the fucking country up and started a war. There's plenty of reason that the north was wary of having the south back in power, and giving rebel leaders U.S. citizenship. But in the 1870s, everything returned to normal. You know what you needed to do to vote? All you needed to do was make a simple pledge that you were loyal to the union. That's it. Now, when the south couldn't do that . . .
Also, white people couldn't vote directly after the war in the south, for a couple of years maybe. By the next presidential election, though, the southern whites were voting. Of course, grandfather clauses didn't affect white poeple.
And the north didn't opress either of us. Perhaps you don't know, but I was born 130 years after that time period.
Last edited by Demosthenes; 2005-02-26 at 09:14 AM.
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