History of Alabama : adapted to the use of schools and for general reading . Statelegislature. He was a candidate for electoi-on the Douglas ticket in 1860. He camewithin four votes of being elected to theConfederate congress by the secession con-vention in 1801. In December, 1862, hewent into the Federal lines and remainedon that side until tlie close of the was appointed a circuit judge byGovernor Parsons in 1865, but resigned after a few months. Underthe reconstruction of congress, he was chief of the registrationbureau of Alabama. Governt)r Smith was inaugurated on the IStliof July.
History of Alabama : adapted to the use of schools and for general reading . Statelegislature. He was a candidate for electoi-on the Douglas ticket in 1860. He camewithin four votes of being elected to theConfederate congress by the secession con-vention in 1801. In December, 1862, hewent into the Federal lines and remainedon that side until tlie close of the was appointed a circuit judge byGovernor Parsons in 1865, but resigned after a few months. Underthe reconstruction of congress, he was chief of the registrationbureau of Alabama. Governt)r Smith was inaugurated on the IStliof July. 1868, succeeding Governor Patton, whose single term wasseven months longer than any other in the history of more than a year, Governor Patton had been permitted toexercise but little authority, and all his acts were subject to re-vision by General Pope. Garrett says: Armed men were always])iesent at the ca]utol to inspire awe and challenge obedience. Yetcalm, prudent and with business tact and energy. Governor Pattondid the best which circumstances Tlie objec of the five days election, held in Fel^ruary,1868, was to get all the negroes out to vote the radical ticket.(We use the term radical instead of Republican because foryears the latter term was almost entirely discarded fromgeneral use except in the official or formal documents andpa])ers of said party). A^ery few wliito men ]-)arti(i])ated in CONGRESSIONAL RECONSTRUCTION 25 I the said five days election, for they regarded it a big farceinstead of a stern reality. The negroes marched in com-panies of Union leagues to the polls and numerous fraudswere perpetrated which boded no good to the future of theradical party in this State, by suggesting to the whites of theblack belt that they could plav the same game after the bayo-nets should be withdrawn. The radical congressmen of thisState elected in February, 1868, for the term ending ]\rarcli4th, 1869, were all carpet-baggers from the North. When the n
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