 | William Lawrence Royall - Reconstruction - 1881 - 172 pages
...comprehend the complete metamorphosis of the South Carolina Legislature without observing its details. Thu Speaker is black, the clerk is black, the doorkeepers...pages are black, the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee is black, and the chaplain is coal black. At some of the desks sit men whose types it would... | |
 | Peter Joseph Hamilton - History - 1905 - 654 pages
...which is the representative of a white constituency and the professed exponent of an advanced type of modern civilization. . . . The Speaker is black, the...of the Ways and Means is black, and the chaplain is coal-black. At some of the desks sit colored men whose types it would be hard to find outside of Congo... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart, John Gould Curtis - United States - 1901 - 768 pages
...comprehend the complete metamorphosis of the South Carolina Legislature, without observing its details. The Speaker is black, the Clerk is black, the door-keepers...of the Ways and Means is black, and the chaplain is coal-black. At some of the desks sit colored men whose types it would be hard to find outside of Congo... | |
 | Edward Laight Wells - Reconstruction - 1907 - 274 pages
...comprehend the complete metamorphosis of the South Carolina Legislature, without observing its details. The speaker is black, the clerk is black, the doorkeepers...black, the chairman of the ways and means is black, the chaplain is coal-black. At some of the desks sit colored men whose types it would be hard to find... | |
 | Howard Walter Caldwell, Clark Edmund Persinger - United States - 1909 - 512 pages
...opposition, we find 101 remaining. Of this 101, 94 are colored, and seven are their white allies. . . . The Speaker is black, the Clerk is /black, the door-keepers are black, the little pages are black . . -.' and the chaplain is coal-black. . . . One of the things that first strikes a casual observer... | |
 | James Alton James - United States - 1914 - 606 pages
...comprehend the complete metamorphosis of the South Carolina Legislature without observing its details. The Speaker is black, the Clerk is black, the doorkeepers...of the Ways and Means is black, and the chaplain is coal-black. At some of the desks sit colored men whose types it would be hard to find outside of Congo;... | |
 | Edwin Wiley, Irving Everett Rines, Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1916 - 606 pages
...the remaining one hundred and one "ninety- four are colored and seven are their white allies. * * * The speaker is black, the clerk is black, the door-keepers...of the Ways and Means is black and the chaplain is coal-black. At some of the desks sit colored men whose types it would be hard to find outside of Congo,... | |
 | Paul Leland Haworth - United States - 1925 - 634 pages
...and hid the absence of linen. Heavy brogans and short torn trousers it was impossible to hide. . . . The Speaker is black, the Clerk is black, the doorkeepers are black, the chairman of the Ways and Means is black, and the chaplain is coal black. ... At some of the desks sit... | |
 | Arthur Meier Schlesinger - United States - 1925 - 624 pages
...excerpt is taken, James S. Pike, a Northern newspaper man, described the legislature of South Carolina: "The Speaker is black, the clerk is black, the door-keepers...and Means is black, and the chaplain is coal black. . . . No one is allowed to talk five minutes without interruption, and the one interruption is the... | |
 | Henry Tazewell Thompson - Reconstruction - 1925 - 226 pages
...earth which is the representative of a white constituency, and the professed exponent of an advanced modern civilization. * * * The Speaker is black, the...pages are black, the Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee is black, the chaplain is coal black." The New England abolitionist evidently found the South... | |
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The Speaker is black, the Clerk is black, the doorkeepers are black, the little pages are black, the chairman of the Ways and Means is black, and the chaplain is coal-black. 
