Notes

1.      Haworth, The Hayes-Tilden Disputed Presidential Election of 1876, p. 32.

2.      Nordhoff, The Cotton States in the Spring and Summer of 1875, p. 20.

3.      Somers, The Southern States Since the Civil War, pp. 30, 54.

4.      Campbell, White and Black, p. 131.

5.      Nordhoff, The Cotton States in the Spring and Summer of 1875, p. 10.

6.      Campbell, White and Black, p. 143.

7.      Pierce, Sumner, Vol. IV, p. 500.

8.      Pierce, Sumner, Vol. IV, p. 500.

9.      Oberholtzer, Jay Cooke, Vol. II, p. 28.

10.    Pierce, Sumner, Vol. IV, p. 581.

11.    Pierce, Sumner, Vol. IV, p. 598.

12.    Pierce, Sumner, Vol. IV, p. 364.

13.    Blaine, Vol. II, pp. 448-449.

14.    American Historical Review, 1910. W. E. B. Du Bois, “Reconstruction and Its Benefits,” pp. 798, 799.

15.    Fleming, The Freedmen’s Savings Bank, pp. 1, 26.

16.    Simkins and Woody, South Carolina During Reconstruction, pp. 229-230.

17.    Slave Songs of the United States (A. Simpson and Company, N. Y., 1867), p. 55.

18.    Nordhoff, The Cotton States in the Spring and Summer of 1875, pp. 37-38.

19.    Wesley, Negro Labor in the United States, p. 132.

20.    42nd Congress, 2nd Session, House Reports, II, No. 22, Part I, pp. 214-215.

21.    Ibid. Cf. Report on Valuation and Taxation and Public Indebtedness, 10th Census of U. S., pp. 281-294. “A very conservative figure in 1872 put the increase of indebtedness of the eleven states since their reconstruction at $131,717,777.81, of which more than two-thirds consisted of guarantees to various enterprises, chiefly railways.” (Reconstruction, Political and Economic, W. A. Dunning, p. 208.)

22.    North American Review, August-December, 1884.

23.    Green, Society for Political Education, 1883, N. Y.

24.    Campbell, White and Black, pp. 179-180.

25.    Dunning, Reconstruction, Political and Economic (Vol. 22, American Nation Series, 1865-1877, Hart), p. 209.

26.    Herberg, The Heritage of the Civil War, pp. 21-22.

27.    American Historical Review, Vol. XV, No. 4, July, 1910, p. 796.

28.    Ku Klux Report, S. C., Part II, p. 1253.

29.    Woodson, Negro Orators and Their Orations, pp. 323-324.

30.    Woodson, Negro Orators and Their Orations, p. 298.

31.    Woodson, Negro Orators and Their Orations, pp. 379-380.