Word: carpetbagging
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...that led up to and followed the Civil War. For them armed conflict began with the guns at Fort Sumter and ended with Lee's surrender at Appomattox. For post-war developments they think of Lincoln's assassination, the attempt to impeach Andrew Johnson, the scandal of carpetbag rule in the South. Generally accepted without question is the historian's characterization of Reconstruction as "The Tragic...
Last week Louisiana treated the nation to a Legislative spectacle the like of which oldsters had not seen since carpetbag days. As usual, at the centre of the spectacle, was Huey Pierce Long, waving his arms, shouting, swearing, sweating?and giving orders which few Louisianans dared to defy. The scene was the State Capitol at Baton Rouge and the action concerned Senator Long's thoroughly successful attempt to rivet his political dictatorship upon Louisiana in advance of the September primaries...
...sitting at Columbia, permitted it to happen. The Negro was Green Coleman, 88-year-old inmate of the Charlotte, N. C. almshouse. Accompanied by Mayor Wearn of Charlotte and a white delegation, he asked to be heard because he was, he claimed, a South Carolina State Senator in the carpetbag days from 1872 to 1876. The South Carolinians were not entirely willing to admit his claims; State records for that period were too hazy. The legislators voted to hear him "but not as an ex-Senator of South Carolina...
...first four years after being presented to the states. In only one case was an amendment rejected by more than onequarter of the states and subsequently ratified; this was the reconstruction amendment, No. 14, guaranteeing citizens' rights to Negroes. Ten Southern states rejected it, but later, when carpetbag governments were set up, ratified it. Barring such an unusual condition, an amendment which has been rejected by more than a quarter of the states may be considered about as good as dead...