[1026] Brooks was a cousin of Preston Brooks of South Carolina, and had been president of the convention of 1861. The measure was indorsed by Governor Patton, Judge Goldthwaite, and a respectable minority. Ku Klux Rept., Ala. Test., p. 226.
[1027] McPherson’s scrap-book, “Fourteenth Amendment,” p. 55.
[1028] First Confederate Secretary of War, brigadier-general, C.S.A.
[1029] For this incident my authority is a statement of General Swayne made to me in 1901. He was much interested in the movement, and was positive that in time the native whites would have given the suffrage to the negro had not the Reconstruction Acts and other legislation so alienated the races. General Swayne gave me full explanations of his policy in Alabama. His death, a year after the interview, prevented him from verifying some details. His account, though given thirty-five years after the occurrences, was correct so far as I could compare it with the printed matter available. It agreed almost exactly with his reports as printed in the public documents, though he had not those at hand, and had not seen them for thirty years. I have several times been told by old citizens that negroes voted in 1866, in minor elections, by consent of the whites.
[1030] “Diary and Correspondence of S. P. Chase,” in the Annual Report of the Amer. Hist. Assn. (1902), Vol. II, p. 517.
[1031] Stephen B. Weeks, in Polit. Sci. Quarterly (1894), Vol. IX, pp. 683-684.
[1032] See Herbert, “Solid South,” pp. 29, 30, 37.
[1033] Resolution, Dec. 2, 1865, Acts of Ala. (1865-1866), p. 598.
[1034] Resolution, Jan. 16, 1866, Acts of Ala. (1865-1866), p. 603.
[1035] Resolution, Dec. 15, 1865, Acts of Ala. (1865-1866), p. 604.