The facts of reconstruction

John Roy Lynch

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THE FACTS OF RECONSTRUCTION A^c^^^ THE FACTS OF RECONSTRUCTION BY R. LYNCHJOHN Member of fromFormerly Congress Mississippi; Formerly Chairman of the NationalTemporary Republican Convention of Formerly Fourth1884; Auditor of the United States Treasury NEW YORK THE NEALE PUBLISHING COMPANY 1913 Copyright, 1913, by NealeThe Publishing Company ^S i-. minority only the total of that but also of themembership body members. theOf mem-Republican thirty-three FACTSTHE OF RECONSTRUCTION 45 bers of which the Senate was four ofcomposed them were colored men : H. R. of AdamsRevels, ; Charles of Hinds Robert ofCaldwell, ; Gleed, and T. W. of Warren. Of theLowndes, Stringer, one hundred and seven members of which the House was about of them were coloredcomposed thirty men. It will thus be seen that out of the one hun- dred members of which the two Houses wereforty about of them were col-composed only thirty-four ored men. But the colored members insisted that one of the three United States Senators to be elected should be a colored man. The white Re- were that the colored men bepublicans willing the fractional term of one since itgiven year, was understood that Governor Alcorn was to be elected to the full term of six and that Gov-years ernor Ames was to be elected to the fractional term of five years.

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• Reconstruction
• Mississippi

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• Publié par: les_archives_du_savoir
• Nombre de lectures: 13
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 11 Mo

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THE FACTS
OF RECONSTRUCTION