| Thomas Wallace Knox - History - 1865 - 548 pages
...imposed by the army and navy, will do good. • XX. These regulations are based upon the assumption that labor is a public duty, and idleness and vagrancy a crime. No civil or military officer of the Government is exempt from the operation of this universal rule.... | |
| North American review - 1879 - 736 pages
...his General Order No. 23, February 3, 1864, he based his regulations of labor upon the assumption " that labor is a public duty, and idleness and vagrancy a crime," and that this law of labor should be enforced. He fixed the prices to be paid at from three to eight... | |
| ALLEN THORNDIKE RICE - 1879 - 718 pages
...In his General Order No. 23, February 3, 1864, he based his regulations of labor upon the assumption "that labor is a public duty, and idleness and vagrancy a crime," and that tbis law of labor sbould be enforced. He fixed the prices to be paid at from three to eight... | |
| United States. War Department - Confederate States of America - 1972 - 1250 pages
...punishments imposed by the Army and Navy will do good. XX. These regulations are based upon the assumption that labor is a public duty, and idleness and vagrancy a crime. No civil or military officer of the Government is exempt from the operation of this universal rule.... | |
| Peter Joseph Hamilton - History - 1905 - 654 pages
...the Military Division of the Mississippi. . . . "XX. These regulations are based upon the assumption that labor is a public duty and idleness and vagrancy a crime. No civil or military officer of the Government is exempt from the operation of this universal rule.... | |
| Allen Johnson - United States - 1919 - 346 pages
...good faith of the Southerners. They were part of a plan, some believed, to ree-nslave the negro or at least to create by law a class of serfs. This belief...treatment, neglect, and unsanitary conditions. During 1868 and 1864 several influences were urging the establishment of a national bureau or department to... | |
| United States - 1919 - 564 pages
...which gave schooling and medical care to the blacks, and developed systems of government for them. fi. The United States Treasury Department, attempting...crime." All wanted him to work: the Treasury wanted cotton and other crops to sell; the lessees and speculators wanted to make fortunes by his labor; and... | |
| African Americans - 1990 - 988 pages
...punishments imposed by the Army and Navy, will do good. XX. These Regulations are based upon the assumption that labor is a public duty, and idleness and vagrancy a crime. No civil or military officer of the Government is exempt from the operation of this universal rule.... | |
| Edward Royce - Business & Economics - 2010 - 289 pages
...concept of black labor held by northern officials: These regulations are based upon the assumption that labor is a public duty and idleness and vagrancy a crime. . . . That portion of the people identified with the cultivation of the soil, however changed in condition... | |
| James D. Schmidt - History - 1998 - 356 pages
...Banks stated explicitly why he was acting in this manner. The regulations were "based on the assumption that labor is a public duty, and idleness and vagrancy a crime." Civil and military authorities were not exempt from this law, he continued. "Every enlightened community... | |
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