[44] See, this volume, Chapters XI. and XII.
[45] Nordhoff, 18.
[46] It was Nordhoff’s opinion in 1875 that few laborers as ignorant as the average plantation hand could do as well anywhere else in the world, 21. Nordhoff was a young German immigrant who visited Louisiana as reporter for the New York Herald, and published his impressions after an investigation which bears every mark of care and fairness. One can scarcely accuse him of Southern bias when one reads: “I have been opposed to slavery ever since I sat on my father’s knee and was taught by him that slavery was the greatest possible wrong,” 49.
[47] Such a charge was made by a member in the House.
[48] Herbert says that ten paid taxes, Why the Solid South, 401.
[49] Commercial Bulletin, Jan. 19, 1869.
[50] Laws of Louisiana, 1868, No. 114.
[51] Ibid., 1869, No. 48.
[52] House Deb., 1869, 393.
[53] Ibid., 287.