[24] New Orleans, Commercial Bulletin, Nov. 17, 1869.
[25] At this time the legislature was convening in the Banque de la Louisiane.
[26] Jan. 13, 1869.
[27] The scalawag was the war-time Unionist or reconstructed rebel who had ceased opposing Congress. A negro preacher defines the difference between a carpet-bagger and scalawag as follows: “A carpet-bagger came down here from some place and stole enough to fill his carpet-bag, but the scalawag was a man who knew the woods and swamps better than the carpet-bagger did, and he stole the carpet-bagger’s carpet-bag and ran off with it.” House Misc. Doc., 42 Congress, 2 Sess., No. 211, 478.
[28] The writer did not find this especially true of Louisiana, but of the South generally.
[29] “Apparently the Radical authorities have lost the confidence and respect of the army. We do not think that writing to Washington letters of complaint is exactly the way to regain it.”—New Orleans, Commercial Bulletin, Jan. 21, 1869.
[30] New Orleans Commercial Bulletin, Jan. 6, 1869. For a similar expression of feeling, Times, May 9, 1875.
[31] New Orleans Commercial Bulletin, Jan. 14, 1869. “Wise liberality on the part of the northern people and of the government that ought to represent them would certainly be followed by strict and willing acquiescence.... We ought to prove by our demeanor toward those who come among us to buy our vacant lands ... that they are welcome and that liberal legislation will not be wasted upon us.”
[32] Ibid., Sept. 25, 1869.
[33] Ficklen gives this number, History of Reconstruction in Louisiana, 176.