 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1906 - 470 pages
...forget that there is something very real to this uncouth and untutored multitude. . . . Seven [eight] years ago these men were raising corn and cotton under...points of order and questions of privilege." They think that they can do one as well as the other and they prefer the work of legislation to work in... | |
 | Walter Lynwood Fleming - Reconstruction - 1907 - 546 pages
...to recognize and respect. . . They have an earnest purpose, born of conviction that their conditions are not fully assured, which lends a sort of dignity...evidence of an accomplished result. It means escape and defence from old oppressors. It means liberty. It means the destruction of prison walls only too real... | |
 | Paul Leland Haworth - History - 1912 - 264 pages
...and hid the absence of linen. Heavy brogans and short torn trousers it was impossible to hide. . . . Seven years ago these men were raising corn and cotton...raising points of order and questions of privilege." Radical Northerners may have seen poetic justice in the situation just described, but the overturn... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1912 - 472 pages
...forget that there is something very real to this uncouth and untutored multitude. . . . Seven [eight] years ago these men were raising corn and cotton under...points of order and questions of privilege." They think that they can do one as well as the other and they 1 Pike, p. 16. CH. XLII.] SOUTH CAROLINA LEGISLATURE... | |
 | Paul Leland Haworth - United States - 1925 - 634 pages
...Congo; whose costume, visage, attitude, and expression only befit the forecastle of a buccaneer. . . . Seven years ago these men were raising corn and cotton...raising points of order and questions of privilege." A large majority of these legislators could not read or write; most paid no taxes. The total sum paid... | |
 | Robert Granville Caldwell - United States - 1927 - 606 pages
...exceptions, have been themselves slaves, and that their ancestors were slaves for generations. . . . The whole thing is a wonderful novelty to them as...raising points of order and questions of privilege. ... It is the sunshine of their lives. It is their day of jubilee. It is their long promised vision... | |
 | Arthur Meier Schlesinger - United States - 1925 - 622 pages
...legislative proceedings . . . there is something very real to this uncouth and untutored multitude. . . . Seven years ago these men were raising corn and cotton...raising points of order and questions of privilege. . . . It is the evidence of an accomplished result. ... It means liberty. ... It is their day of jubilee."... | |
 | David Levering Lewis - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 756 pages
...seats, Pike provided generations of Reconstruction detractors with an irresistable quip, writing that "seven years ago these men were raising corn and cotton under the whip of an overseer. Today they are raising points of order and questions of privilege." While "sambo" (Pike's... | |
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Seven years ago these men were raising corn and cotton under the whip of the overseer. To-day they are raising points of order and questions of privilege. 