. Civil war and reconstruction in Alabama . subcommittee : He called on me to explain why I said unkind things about hisbeing candidate for president of the Alabama University, and I said, Mr. Lakin, youand I are near neighbors, and I dont want to have much to do with you — not much ;but I think this : didnt you try to be president of the Alabama University ? He said hedid. I said, It would have been a disgrace to the state. You dont know an adjectivefrom a verb, nor nothing else. . He says, ... but I rather didnt like what yousaid. I said, Doctor, you will have to like it or let it alone. He
. Civil war and reconstruction in Alabama . subcommittee : He called on me to explain why I said unkind things about hisbeing candidate for president of the Alabama University, and I said, Mr. Lakin, youand I are near neighbors, and I dont want to have much to do with you — not much ;but I think this : didnt you try to be president of the Alabama University ? He said hedid. I said, It would have been a disgrace to the state. You dont know an adjectivefrom a verb, nor nothing else. . He says, ... but I rather didnt like what yousaid. I said, Doctor, you will have to like it or let it alone. He let it alone. — KuKlux Rept., Ala. Test., p. 784. * Clark, p. 98, is not correct on this point; Ku Klux Rept,, Ala. Test., pp. Ill,H2, 113, 114 ; account of Dr. O. D. Smith of the second Board of Education ; Inde-pendent Monitor, Aug. 9 and Sept. 1, i858. 6l2 CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION IN ALABAMA [From the Independent Monitor, Tuscaloosa, , Soptcnilior 1, i8G8.]A PROSPECTIVE SCENE IN THE CITY OF OAKS, 4TH OF MARCH, Hang, curs, Imng!fate, to their hanging! Tbeir complexion is perfect Stand fast, goodIf they be not bom to bo hanged, our case is miscrablo. The abovo cut represents the fate ia store for those Rreat pests of Southern society—the carpet-hagger and scalawag—if found in Dixies land after tho hreak of day ou the4th of March next. Tho genus carpet-bagger is a man with a lank head of dry hair, a lank stomach, andlong legs, club Isnees, and splay feet, dried legs,ahd lank jaws, with eyes like a fish andmonth like a shark. Add to this a habit of sneaking and dodging about in unitnownploces,habiting with negroes in darli dens and back streets, a look like a honnd, and thosmell of a polecat. Words are wanting to do full jnstice to the gcnvs scalawag. Ho is a cur with a con-tracted liead, downward look, slinking and uneasy gait; sleeps in tho woods, lilie oldCrossland, at the bare idea of a Ku-Klux raid. Our scalawag is the local leper of the
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