[1397] Montgomery Advertiser, July 19, 1867.
[1398] Herbert, pp. 43, 44; N. Y. Herald, June 20 and 27, 1867. Most of the violent and radical schemes originated and were advocated by the white Radical leaders. Generally the negro leaders made moderate demands. Holland Thompson, a negro leader, in a speech at Tuskegee, advised his race not to organize a negro military company, as it would be sure to cause trouble. He said that the negro did not ask for social equality. He told the negroes to stop buying guns and whiskey and go to work. McPherson’s scrapbook, “The Campaign of 1867,” Vol. I, p. 107. In striking contrast were the speeches of such white men as B. W. Norris and A. C. Felder, who undertook to persuade the negroes that Reconstruction was the remedy for all the ills that affected humanity. McPherson’s scrapbook, “The Fourth of July” (1867), pp. 124, 125.
[1399] Herbert, p. 44.
[1400] Lawyer, colonel of 7th Alabama Cavalry, superintendent of education, 1870-1872, author of “The Cradle of the Confederacy,” “Alabama Manual and Statistical Register,” editor Montgomery Mail, Mobile Register, etc.
[1401] A reign of terror had followed the reconstruction of Tennessee under “Parson” Brownlow.
[1402] N. Y. Times, Aug. 19, 1867.
[1403] N. Y. Herald, Sept. 6, 1867; Annual Cyclopædia (1867), p. 28; Herbert, p. 44.
[1404] Herbert, pp. 44, 45; N. Y. Herald, Sept. 6, 1867.
[1405] Montgomery Sentinel, July 3, 1867; N. Y. Herald, Aug. 5, 1867.
[1406] Ku Klux Rept., Ala. Test., p. 357. A frequent threat.