. Civil war and reconstruction in Alabama . J. Hinds, one of the most disliked of the S. Heflin, oneof the scalawags, wasfrom that sectionwhere the Peace So-ciety flourished duringthe war. At first aConfederate, in 1864he deserted and wentwithin the Federallines. Charles Hays,the other scalawag,became the most no-torious of the Recon-struction representa-tives in Congress. Hewas a cotton planterin one of the densestblack districts andmanaged to stay inCongress for fouryears. He is chieflyremembered becauseof the Hays-Hawleycorrespondence in 1874. Alfred E. Buck of Maine h
. Civil war and reconstruction in Alabama . J. Hinds, one of the most disliked of the S. Heflin, oneof the scalawags, wasfrom that sectionwhere the Peace So-ciety flourished duringthe war. At first aConfederate, in 1864he deserted and wentwithin the Federallines. Charles Hays,the other scalawag,became the most no-torious of the Recon-struction representa-tives in Congress. Hewas a cotton planterin one of the densestblack districts andmanaged to stay inCongress for fouryears. He is chieflyremembered becauseof the Hays-Hawleycorrespondence in 1874. Alfred E. Buck of Maine had been anofficer of negro troops. He served only one term and after defeatpassed into the Federal service. He died as minister to Japan in1902. This delegation was weaker in ability and in morals thanthe carpet-bag delegation to the Fortieth Congress. In the fall of 1870 Governor Smith was a candidate for reelectionagainst Robert Burns Lindsay, Democrat. The hostihty of Smithto carpet-baggers weakened the party. The ticket was not accept-. ELECTION OP 1870 FOB GOVERNOR. I [ Demoiatic Majority ^H Radical Majority O Blaok Counties. ^^ Nearly evenly divided Undsay (Dem), 77,721; Smith, (Hep.), 76,291 POLITICS AND POLITICAL METHODS 751 able to the whites because Rapier, a negro, was candidate forsecretary of state. The genuine Unionists were becoming ultraDemocrats, because of the prominence given in their party to formersecessionists like Parsons, Sam Rice, and Hays, and to negroes andcarpet-baggers. Lindsay was from north Alabama, which supportedhim as a white mans The negroes had been taughtto distrust scalawags, as being little better than Democrats. Smithwas asked why he ran on a ticket with a negro. He replied that nowthat was the only way to get office. He also called attention to thefact that in north Alabama the Democrats drew the color line, andcalled themselves the white mans party, while in the black coun-ties they made an earnest effort to secure the negro
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