Book/Printed Material Message of the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 12th instant, information in relation to the States of the Union lately in rebellion, accompanied by a report of Carl Schurz on the states of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana ; also a report of Lieutenant General Grant, on the same subject. December 19, 1865. -- Read and ordered to be printed, with the reports of Carl Schurz and Lieutenant General Grant
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Cited as: S. Ex. Doc. 39-2 39th Congress 1st Session j SENATE Ex Doc No 2 MESSAGE OF TIIE COMMUNICATING 72 compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 12th instant information in relation to the States…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - Schurz, Carl - Andrew Johnson - Johnson, Andrew - United States. Congress. Senate - United States. President ( : Johnson) - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1865
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Cited as: S. Ex. Doc. 39-2 2 CONDITION OF THE SOUTH supremacy of the Constitution and the laws of the United States their loyalty will be unreservedly given to the government whose leniency they cannot fail to appreciate…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - Schurz, Carl - Andrew Johnson - Johnson, Andrew - United States. Congress. Senate - United States. President ( : Johnson) - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1865
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Cited as: S. Ex. Doc. 39-2 CONDITION OF THE SOUTH 3 Meridian Jackson and Vicksburg then descended the Mississippi to Nerv Orleans touching at Natchez from New Orleans I visited Mobile Alabama and the Teche country in Louisiana…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - Schurz, Carl - Andrew Johnson - Johnson, Andrew - United States. Congress. Senate - United States. President ( : Johnson) - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1865
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Cited as: S. Ex. Doc. 39-2 4 CONDITION OF THE SOUTH tation to plantation hardly knowing whether they wanted to escape or not Others remained at their homes yielding themselves np to their fate Prominent Unionists told me…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - Schurz, Carl - Andrew Johnson - Johnson, Andrew - United States. Congress. Senate - United States. President ( : Johnson) - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1865
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Cited as: S. Ex. Doc. 39-2 CONDITION OF THE SOUTH 5 nated in favor of the national cause but in most cases such a sentiment was expressed only in a whisper others again would grumblingly insist upon the…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - Schurz, Carl - Andrew Johnson - Johnson, Andrew - United States. Congress. Senate - United States. President ( : Johnson) - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1865
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Cited as: S. Ex. Doc. 39-2 6 CONDITION OF THE SOUTH time but all give it up as a practical impossibility for the present All move ments in favor of separation from the Union have therefore been practically…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - Schurz, Carl - Andrew Johnson - Johnson, Andrew - United States. Congress. Senate - United States. President ( : Johnson) - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1865
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Cited as: S. Ex. Doc. 39-2 CONDITION OF THE SOUTH FEELING TOWARDS THE SOLDIERS AND THE PEOPLE OF THE NORTH A more substantial evidence of returning loyalty would be a favorable change of feeling with regard to the…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - Schurz, Carl - Andrew Johnson - Johnson, Andrew - United States. Congress. Senate - United States. President ( : Johnson) - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1865
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Cited as: S. Ex. Doc. 39-2 CONDITION OF THE SOUTH statements I beg to be understood as always excluding the individual excep tions above mentioned It is by no means surprising that prejudices and resentments which for years…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - Schurz, Carl - Andrew Johnson - Johnson, Andrew - United States. Congress. Senate - United States. President ( : Johnson) - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1865
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Cited as: S. Ex. Doc. 39-2 CONDITION OF THE SOUTH 9 lawless persons in Jackson about the end of June General Slocum in his order prohibiting the organization of the State militia in Mississippi speaks of the outrages…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - Schurz, Carl - Andrew Johnson - Johnson, Andrew - United States. Congress. Senate - United States. President ( : Johnson) - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1865
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Cited as: S. Ex. Doc. 39-2 10 CONDITION OF THE SOUTH between rival candidates was somewhat animated It was probably the same in Alabama Georgia and South Carolina The Mississippi convention was in its majority composed of men…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - Schurz, Carl - Andrew Johnson - Johnson, Andrew - United States. Congress. Senate - United States. President ( : Johnson) - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1865
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Cited as: S. Ex. Doc. 39-2 CONDITION OF THE SOUTH 11 It is not so difficult to find places in which a different style of argument is considered most serviceable Your attention is respectfully invited to a card…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - Schurz, Carl - Andrew Johnson - Johnson, Andrew - United States. Congress. Senate - United States. President ( : Johnson) - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1865
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Cited as: S. Ex. Doc. 39-2 12 CONDITION OF THE SOUTH While I was in New Orleans an occurrence took place which may be quoted as an illustration of the sweep of what I might call the reactionary…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - Schurz, Carl - Andrew Johnson - Johnson, Andrew - United States. Congress. Senate - United States. President ( : Johnson) - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1865
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Cited as: S. Ex. Doc. 39-2 CONDITION OF THE SOUTH 13 the victory of the national arms has to a great extent resulted in something like a political ostracism of the most loyal men in that part of…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - Schurz, Carl - Andrew Johnson - Johnson, Andrew - United States. Congress. Senate - United States. President ( : Johnson) - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1865
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Cited as: S. Ex. Doc. 39-2 14 CONDITION OF THE SOUTH south it was still very far from showing a satisfactory efficiency in the main tenance of order and security In many districts robbing and plundering was going…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - Schurz, Carl - Andrew Johnson - Johnson, Andrew - United States. Congress. Senate - United States. President ( : Johnson) - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1865
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Cited as: S. Ex. Doc. 39-2 CONDITION OF THE SOUTH 15 letter of General Kirby Smith Ko 9 c In these papers a variety of opinions is expressed some to a certain extent sanguine others based upon a…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - Schurz, Carl - Andrew Johnson - Johnson, Andrew - United States. Congress. Senate - United States. President ( : Johnson) - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1865
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Cited as: S. Ex. Doc. 39-2 16 CONDITION OF THE SOUTH Freedmens Bureau to whom the negroes applied for advice and guidance either procured them such employment as could be found or persuaded them to return to their…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - Schurz, Carl - Andrew Johnson - Johnson, Andrew - United States. Congress. Senate - United States. President ( : Johnson) - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1865
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Cited as: S. Ex. Doc. 39-2 CONDITION OF THE SOUTH 17 directly charged against the system of free labor If negroes walked away from the plantations it was conclusive proof of the incorrigible instability of the negro and…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - Schurz, Carl - Andrew Johnson - Johnson, Andrew - United States. Congress. Senate - United States. President ( : Johnson) - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1865
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Cited as: S. Ex. Doc. 39-2 18 CONDITION OF THE SOUTH conciliation between the government and tlieir people A spirit of bitterness and persecution manifests itself towards the negroes They are shot and abused outside the immediate protection…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - Schurz, Carl - Andrew Johnson - Johnson, Andrew - United States. Congress. Senate - United States. President ( : Johnson) - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1865
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Cited as: S. Ex. Doc. 39-2 CONDITION OF TIIE SOUTH 19 the Freedmens Bureau in Alabama communicated to me by the general Cap tain Poillon agent of the bureau at Mobile says of the condition of things in…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - Schurz, Carl - Andrew Johnson - Johnson, Andrew - United States. Congress. Senate - United States. President ( : Johnson) - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1865
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Cited as: S. Ex. Doc. 39-2 20 CONDITION OF THE SOUTH was practiced in times gone by It is hardly necessary to quote any documentaiy evidence on this point the papers appended to this report are full of…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - Schurz, Carl - Andrew Johnson - Johnson, Andrew - United States. Congress. Senate - United States. President ( : Johnson) - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1865
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Cited as: S. Ex. Doc. 39-2 CONDITION OF THE SOUTH 21 GENERAL IDEAS AND SCHEMES OF WHITES CONCERNING THE FREEDMEN Some of tlie planters with whom I had occasion to converse expressed their determination to adopt the course…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - Schurz, Carl - Andrew Johnson - Johnson, Andrew - United States. Congress. Senate - United States. President ( : Johnson) - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1865
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Cited as: S. Ex. Doc. 39-2 22 CONDITION OF TIIE SOUTH prominent South Carolinian in July that the planters in certain localities in the north western part of his State had been on the point of doing so…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - Schurz, Carl - Andrew Johnson - Johnson, Andrew - United States. Congress. Senate - United States. President ( : Johnson) - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1865
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Cited as: S. Ex. Doc. 39-2 CONDITION OF THE SOUTH 23 my observation had at the time of my visit so much progress been made in the reorganization of local government as in Louisiana In most of the…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - Schurz, Carl - Andrew Johnson - Johnson, Andrew - United States. Congress. Senate - United States. President ( : Johnson) - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1865
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Cited as: S. Ex. Doc. 39-2 24 CONDITION OF THE SOUTH patrol to see that the aforesaid ordinances are promptly executed While the town ordinances provide that a negro who does not find an employer shall be compelled…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - Schurz, Carl - Andrew Johnson - Johnson, Andrew - United States. Congress. Senate - United States. President ( : Johnson) - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1865
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Cited as: S. Ex. Doc. 39-2 CONDITION OF THE SOUTH 25 refuse to sign any bonds for the freedmen The white citizens and authorities say that it is for their interest to drive out all independent negro labor…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - Schurz, Carl - Andrew Johnson - Johnson, Andrew - United States. Congress. Senate - United States. President ( : Johnson) - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1865
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Cited as: S. Ex. Doc. 39-2 26 CONDITION OF THE SOUTH ren superintendent of education under tlie Freedmens Bureau in Mississippi Accompanying document No 37 The long and extensive experience of the writer gives the views he expresses…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - Schurz, Carl - Andrew Johnson - Johnson, Andrew - United States. Congress. Senate - United States. President ( : Johnson) - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1865
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Cited as: S. Ex. Doc. 39-2 CONDITION OF THE SOUTH 27 cers saying that they would respectfully ask that no freedmens schools be established under the auspices of the bureau as it would tend to disturb the present…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - Schurz, Carl - Andrew Johnson - Johnson, Andrew - United States. Congress. Senate - United States. President ( : Johnson) - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1865
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Cited as: S. Ex. Doc. 39-2 28 CONDITION OF THE SOUTH to any particular race It is also true that the alacrity negroes put into their work depends in a majority of cases upon certain combinations of circumstances…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - Schurz, Carl - Andrew Johnson - Johnson, Andrew - United States. Congress. Senate - United States. President ( : Johnson) - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1865
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Cited as: S. Ex. Doc. 39-2 CONDITION OF THE SOUTH 29 upon the nature of the inducements held out and the unsatisfactory regulation of the matter of wages has certainly something to do with the instability of negro…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - Schurz, Carl - Andrew Johnson - Johnson, Andrew - United States. Congress. Senate - United States. President ( : Johnson) - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1865
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Cited as: S. Ex. Doc. 39-2 30 CONDITION OF THE SOUTH It may be said that where the Freedmens Bureau is best organized there is least vagrancy among the negroes Here and there they show considerable rest lessness…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - Schurz, Carl - Andrew Johnson - Johnson, Andrew - United States. Congress. Senate - United States. President ( : Johnson) - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1865
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Cited as: S. Ex. Doc. 39-2 CONDITION OF THE SOUTH 31 yet that the negro is free A negro is called insolent whenever his conduct varies in any manner from what a southern man was accustomed to when…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - Schurz, Carl - Andrew Johnson - Johnson, Andrew - United States. Congress. Senate - United States. President ( : Johnson) - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1865
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Cited as: S. Ex. Doc. 39-2 32 CONDITION OF THE SOUTH numerous Those who enjoy their confidence enjoy also their affection Cen turies of slavery have not been sufficient to make them the enemies of the white race…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - Schurz, Carl - Andrew Johnson - Johnson, Andrew - United States. Congress. Senate - United States. President ( : Johnson) - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1865
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Cited as: S. Ex. Doc. 39-2 CONDITION OF THE SOUTH 33 our military authorities and of which the Opelousas and St Landry ordinances were the most significant Other things of more recent date such as the new negro…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - Schurz, Carl - Andrew Johnson - Johnson, Andrew - United States. Congress. Senate - United States. President ( : Johnson) - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1865
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Cited as: S. Ex. Doc. 39-2 34 CONDITION OF THE SOUTH development of free labor but only the clangers of emancipation are spoken of It will be observed that this clause is so vaguely worded as to authorize…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - Schurz, Carl - Andrew Johnson - Johnson, Andrew - United States. Congress. Senate - United States. President ( : Johnson) - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1865
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Cited as: S. Ex. Doc. 39-2 CONDITION OF THE SOUTH 35 and battery V The answer almost invariably was You must make some allowance for the prejudices of our people It is probable that the laws excluding negro…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - Schurz, Carl - Andrew Johnson - Johnson, Andrew - United States. Congress. Senate - United States. President ( : Johnson) - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1865
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Cited as: S. Ex. Doc. 39-2 36 CONDITION OF THE SOUTH and freedmen See Colonel Yorkes report accompanying document No 25 Second that the governor proposed to arm the people upon the ground that the inhabitants refused to…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - Schurz, Carl - Andrew Johnson - Johnson, Andrew - United States. Congress. Senate - United States. President ( : Johnson) - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1865
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Cited as: S. Ex. Doc. 39-2 CONDITION OF THE SOUTH 37 the freedmen were assured of the direct protection of the national government Whenever they are in trouble they raise their eyes up to that power and although…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - Schurz, Carl - Andrew Johnson - Johnson, Andrew - United States. Congress. Senate - United States. President ( : Johnson) - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1865
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Cited as: S. Ex. Doc. 39-2 38 CONDITION OF THE SOUTH reconstruction it is not only the political machinery of the States and their constitutional relations to the general government but the whole organism of southern society that…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - Schurz, Carl - Andrew Johnson - Johnson, Andrew - United States. Congress. Senate - United States. President ( : Johnson) - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1865
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Cited as: S. Ex. Doc. 39-2 CONDITION OF THE SOUTH 39 of planters were always in close business connexion with the planting interest and there was hardly a branch of commerce or industry in the south which was…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - Schurz, Carl - Andrew Johnson - Johnson, Andrew - United States. Congress. Senate - United States. President ( : Johnson) - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1865
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Cited as: S. Ex. Doc. 39-2 40 CONDITIpN OF THE SOUTH anxiety to have their State governments restored at once to have the troops withdrawn and the Freedmens Bureau abolished although a good many dis cerning men know…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - Schurz, Carl - Andrew Johnson - Johnson, Andrew - United States. Congress. Senate - United States. President ( : Johnson) - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1865
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Title
- Message of the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 12th instant, information in relation to the States of the Union lately in rebellion, accompanied by a report of Carl Schurz on the states of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana ; also a report of Lieutenant General Grant, on the same subject. December 19, 1865. -- Read and ordered to be printed, with the reports of Carl Schurz and Lieutenant General Grant
Other Title
- Cited as: S. Ex. Doc. 39-2
Names
- United States Congress. Senate
- Johnson, Andrew 1808-1875
- Schurz, Carl 1829-1906
- Andrew Johnson originator
- United States. Government Publishing Office, publisher, distributor
- United States. Congress. Senate, author
- United States. President (1865-1869 : Johnson)
Created / Published
- Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1865.
Headings
- - United States.--National Guard
- - Allegiance
- - Discrimination
- - Federal government
- - Labor
- - Politics and government
- - Local government
- - Loyalty oaths
- - Military occupation
- - Militia
- - Slavery
- - Suffrage
- - Violence
- - Voting
- - Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
- - Blacks
- - African Americans
- - Freedmen
Genre
- Government publication
- Legislative materials
Medium
- 1 online resource (108 pages).
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- KF12
- 39-1:S.EX.DOC.2
- Y 1.1/2:1237
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- 2022699613
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- Andrew Johnson
- Johnson, Andrew
- Schurz, Carl
- United States Congress. Senate
- United States. Congress. Senate
- United States. Government Publishing Office
- United States. President ( : Johnson)
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- African Americans
- Allegiance
- Black People
- Blacks
- Discrimination
- Education
- Federal Government
- Freed Persons
- Freedmen
- Government Publication
- Labor
- Legislative Materials
- Local Government
- Loyalty Oaths
- Military Occupation
- Militia
- National Guard
- Platforms
- Political Parties
- Politics and Government
- Reconstruction (U.S. History,)
- Slavery
- Suffrage
- United States
- Violence
- Voting