[1985] Ala. Test., p. 230. In some communities a negro is still told that he must not let the sun go down on him before leaving.
[1986] Ala. Test., pp. 944, 947, 948.
[1987] Ala. Test., pp. 1757, 1758, 1764, 1765, 1768. Judge Mudd was by no means a representative of the old slaveholding element, but rather of the white county people.
[1988] Ala. Test., p. 492.
[1989] Ala. Test., pp. 1127, 1128, 1139.
[1990] Ala. Test., pp. 1175, 1179.
[1991] G. O. No. 11, Sub-Dist. Ala., April 4, 1868; Selma Times and Messenger, April 9, 1868; N. Y. Herald, April 7, 1868.
[1992] Report of the Secretary of War, 1869, p. 83 et seq.; Report of Meade, 1868.
[1993] Joint Resolution, Sept. 22, 1868, in Acts of Ala., p. 292. The delegation to Washington did not provide themselves with an authenticated copy of the resolution and had to wait for it. Governor Smith, who was with the delegation, spoiled everything by declaring that there was no disorder except along the Tennessee River and in southwestern Alabama and that troops were not needed. No officials had been resisted, he said, and it would be imprudent to send troops. N. Y. Herald, Sept. 27, 1868. The citizens of Montgomery held a mass-meeting and denied in toto the allegations of the memorial, denouncing it as a move of partisan politics. The strangers were sure to fall from power unless upheld by outside force. N. Y. Herald, Sept. 25, 1868.
[1994] Act of Dec. 24, 1868; Acts of Ala., p. 439.