. Civil war and reconstruction in Alabama . Governor R. B. Lindsay. Major J. R. Crowe, now of Sheffield,Ala., one of the founders of the KuKIux Klan at Pulaski, Tenn. DEMOCRATIC AND CONSERVATIVE LEADERS. SOCIAL CONDITIONS DURING RECONSTRUCTION 761 by the Radical leaders; heavy taxes, — all these burdens bore to theground the Lewis administration before the end of its term. Thelast year was simply a standstill while the whites were preparing tooverthrow the Radical government, which was demoralized anddisabled also by constant aid and interference from the Federaladministration. Lewis appointed
. Civil war and reconstruction in Alabama . Governor R. B. Lindsay. Major J. R. Crowe, now of Sheffield,Ala., one of the founders of the KuKIux Klan at Pulaski, Tenn. DEMOCRATIC AND CONSERVATIVE LEADERS. SOCIAL CONDITIONS DURING RECONSTRUCTION 761 by the Radical leaders; heavy taxes, — all these burdens bore to theground the Lewis administration before the end of its term. Thelast year was simply a standstill while the whites were preparing tooverthrow the Radical government, which was demoralized anddisabled also by constant aid and interference from the Federaladministration. Lewis appointed a lower class of officials than Smith had ap-pointed, among them many ignorant negroes for minor offices. Car-pet-baggers and scalawags were becoming scarce. The white countiesunder their own local government were slowly recovering; theformerly wealthy Black Belt counties were being ruined under theburden of local, state, and municipal taxation. To the Forty-second Congress Alabama, now entitled to eight rep-resentatives, sent four scal
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