[949] Journal of the Convention, 1865, pp. 49, 50; N. Y. Herald, Oct. 15, 1865; Shepherd, “Constitution and Ordinances,” 1865, p. 45, Ordinance No. 6. The three members who voted against the abolition ordinance were Crawford of Coosa, Cumming of Monroe, and White of Talladega. They wanted to let the Supreme Court decide. The Supreme Court of Alabama, a year later, held that, as a matter of history which the court would recognize, slavery was dead as a result of war before the passage of the ordinance of Sept. 22, 1865.
[950] That class of men called all negroes “free negroes” and “freedmen” for years after the war as a term of contempt.
[951] Afterwards second provisional governor.
[952] N. Y. Times, Sept. 30, 1865.
[953] N. Y. Herald, Oct. 15, 1865.
[954] N. Y. Times, Sept. 30, 1865.
[955] Journal of the Convention, 1865, p. 80; Shepherd, “Constitution and Ordinances,” 1865, p. 61, Ordinance No. 34.
[956] Huntsville Advocate, Sept. 28, 1865. A “Johnson reconstruction paper.”
[957] Huntsville Advocate, Oct. 12, 1865.
[958] Shepherd, p. 57, Ordinance No. 30; Journal of the Convention, 1865, pp. 67, 68. See Constitution of 1865, Article IV, Section 4.