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41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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"from": "human",
"value": "in 1874 was as follows: The farmer purchased an old mule on credit and rented land on shares, or for so many bales of cotton; any old tools were used; corn, bacon, and other supplies were bought on credit, and a lien given on the crop; a month later, corn and cotton were planted... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bully for Alabama!"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Loil Legislature,"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Captain, John, Mr. Jones,"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "the bonds of all"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "whites in case Seymour were elected. The Union League whipped the negroes into line. Brass bands lent enthusiasm to Radical parades. The negroes were afraid that they would"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Unionist."
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The negroes had been taught to distrust scalawags, as being little better than Democrats. Smith was asked why he ran on a ticket with a negro. He replied that now that was the only way to get office. He also called attention to the fact that in north Alabama the Democrats drew t... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I would rather not tell my military history, for there was very little glory in it.... I do not know that I can say much about my soldiering."
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": ""
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fellow-citizens, they are as pure, as spotless, as stainless, as the immaculate Son of God."
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "the negro members of the legislature. But of those who voted for Spencer in the Radical"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Grant is scared and will do what we want."
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Spell _damned rascal_. It would be spelled."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Spell _damned Radical_. That would be spelled."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They are nearly alike, aren't they?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ""
},
{
"from"... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When the Jacobins say and do low and bitter things, their charge of want of loyalty in the South because our people grumble back a little seems to me as unreasonable as the complaint of the little boy: 'Mamma, make Bob 'have hisself. He makes mouths at me every time I hit him wi... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "was a low shop or store where a white thief encouraged black people to steal all kinds of farm produce and exchange it with him for bad whiskey, bad candy, brass jewellery, etc. This evil was found all over the state where there were ... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Equal Rights Union, was held in Montgomery in January, 1874. The resolutions adopted demanded that the blacks have first choice of the nominations in black counties and a proportional share in all other counties. They expressed themselves as opposed to the efforts of the carpet-... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Strobach traitors and too few Republicans. As leader of the regular organization Strobach had considerable influence in spite of these charges, and his enemies undertook to form a new organization. The leaders of the bolters, known as the Robinson faction, were Busteed, Buckley,... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and offenders were sure of expulsion from church unless, as happened sometimes, the bolters were strong enough to turn the Republicans out. Nearly every church had its political club to which the men belonged and sometimes the women. Robert Bennett of Lee County related his expe... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Old Whig protested in the _Opelika Daily Times_ of June 6, 1874, against the rule of the mob of 80,000 yelling negroes who, at scalawag mandate, and in the name of liberty, deposited ballots against southern white men. Another writer d... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "declared that the issue was"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "; that if the whites were defeated, the county would no longer be endurable and would be abandoned to the blacks; that a conflict of races would be deplorable, but that the whites must protect themselves, and... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Our beloved state has been free from pestilence, floods, and extensive disasters to labor. [2144] As a matter of fact, there had been the regular spring freshets, but there were no sufferers. The loss fell upon the planters, who were under contract to furnish food, stock, and im... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you will come along and do right, you will get two or three shoulders."
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We especially urge upon you carefully to avoid all injuries to others while you are attempting to preserve your own rights. Let our people avoid all just causes of complaint. Turmoil and strife with those who oppose us in this contest will only weaken the moral force of our effo... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "in Alabama. The most comprehensive"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "story was that of Charles Hays, member of Congress, published in the famous"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hays-Hawley letter of September 7, 1874. Hays had borne a bad character in Alaba... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In white districts some obnoxious speakers were"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "others forbidden to speak and asked to leave. One Radical speaker complained that whites in numbers came to hear him, sat on the front seats with guns across their knees, blew tin horns, a... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The negro was killed. A conflict at Belmont, where a negro was killed, and another at Gainesville were probably caused by the endeavor of the whites to exclude negroes who had been imported from Mississippi. By rioting the Republicans had everything to gain and the Democrats eve... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lily White faction which demanded that the negro be dropped as a campaign issue and that an attempt be made to build up a decent white Republican party. The opposing faction has been called"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Black and Tans, and has held to the negro.... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "methods to prevent a return to the intolerable conditions of Reconstruction. The people grew weary of the eternal"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and a demand arose for a revision of the constitution in order to eliminate the mass of the negro voters, to do away with ... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Barbour County Fever,"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Black Code, or"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Black Laws,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Black Republican"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Union"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Union"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Condition of Affairs in the South,"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Conquered province"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Convention"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Cotton is King,"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Deadfalls,"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Disintegration and absorption"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Forfeited rights"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Forty acres and a mule,"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Freedmen's Home Colonies,"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Union"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Union"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Independents"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Iron-clad"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "King Cotton,"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Loyalists,"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "National Guards,"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Peace Society man, 143, 147, 343; provisional governor, 350, 353; elected to U. S. Senate, 374; speaks in the North, 392, 401; advises rejection of Fourteenth Amendment, 396; originates"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "White Man's Movement,"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pike County Platform,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Political bacon,"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lily Whites and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Black and Tans,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Restoration,"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Union"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Southern outrages,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Southern theory"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Southern Unionists'"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "State Suicide"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hays-Hawley letter,"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Union"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "White Man's Government,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "White man's party,"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Social Relations ; Hodgson,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Cradle of the Confederacy, Ch. 1; Garrett,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Reminiscences, Ch. 1; Miller's and Brown's"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Histories of Alabama, _passim_; Sa... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Cradle of the Confederacy, Chs. 2, 4, 6, 8; DuBose,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Life of William L. Yancey ; Phillips,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Georgia and State Rights, Chs. 2, 3; Pickett,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Alabama,"
... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Alabama,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Alabama Platform"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Debates of 1861."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Underground Railroad, pp. 119, 160, 167, 195; Hinton,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "John Brown ; Hague,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Blockaded Family. As early as 1835 incendiary literature ... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Debates,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There will be no war. But if there should be, we can whip the Yankees with popguns. After the war, when he had turned"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "he was taken to task for the speech."
},
{
"from": "gpt"... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The American Conflict,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Authorities for the political history of Alabama before 1860: Hodgson's"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Cradle of the Confederacy ; Garrett's"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Reminiscences o... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Unionists,"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No state shall without the consent of Congress enter into any agreement or compact with another state,"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Debates ; Hodgson's"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Cradle of the Confederacy ; DuBose's"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yancey ; Wilmer's"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Recent Past."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "History of Alab... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. I, p. 277; Miller, p. 160;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Battles and Leaders, II, p. 706. A former"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Union man declared after the war that the barbarities of Turchin crushed out the remai... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Alabama."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Alabama"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Life of Forrest,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Life of Forrest, pp. 185-222; Mathes,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "General Forrest,"
},
{
... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Life of Forrest,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The South,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The South,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "History of Selma, p. 51; Miller,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Alabama, pp. 221-226; Parsons, ... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The South Since the War,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "County Notes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Public Men."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "History of Selma,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The South,"
},
{
"from": "... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Regimental Histories."
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Story of the Confederate States ; Southern Hist. Soc. Papers, Vol. VI; Brewer,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Alabama,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Regimental Histories ; Miller,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "History of Alabama, p. 375; B... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rebellion Record,"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rebellion Record,"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Civil History of the Confederate States,"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Four Years in Rebel Capitals."
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Civil History,"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One leg too short, and was at once excused by the Board. The next man had no excuse whatever, but he had seen how Smith's excuse worked, so he wrote,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Both legs too short, but he had to go to Mobile."
},
{
"from": "human",
"v... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Civil History,"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Civil History,"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "cavalry, carried to Camp Watts, at Notasulga, and enrolled as a conscript, no attention being paid to his furlough. To Camp Watts were brought daily squads of conscripts, rounded up by the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "cavalry. They were guarded by conscripts. When ... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Railroads and Highways, in the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Memorial Record of Alabama,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "History and Debates of the Convention of 1861 ; Hodgson,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Cradle of the Confederacy ; Garr... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Northern Alabama Illustrated, p. 47; Ku Klux Rept. Ala. Test., pp. 592, 824; Saunders,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Early Settlers ; Brewer,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Alabama, p. 65; Garrett,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Public Men ... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Avalanche from the way it overran the Whiggish counties of the southern and central sections. This was shown in the convention, where representation was based on the white vote. Since the war representation in the conventions is based on population, and the Black Belt has co... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "After the War, pp. 348-350; Saunders,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Early Settlers, pp. 115, 164; Jones,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A Rebel War Clerk's Diary,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Anecdotes, Poetry, and Incidents of the War, p... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Confederate Military History,"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Southern States since the War, p. 135; _Montgomery Advertiser_, Aug. 17, 1902; _N. Y. Tribune_, Feb. 10, 1865; Freemantle,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Three Months in the Southern States."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rebellion Record,"
},
{... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mark Twain."
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Debates,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Public Men of Alabama,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Alabama,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Northern Alabama Illustrated, p. 327; Acts of Alabama, 1862, p. 225; Moore,"
},
{
"from": "human",
... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Confederate Military History,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Confederate Military History,"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lost Cause,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yancey,"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "was a person who secured a safe position in order to keep out of service in the field. A"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Political History of Alabama, in"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Memorial Record of Alabama,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A Rebel War Clerk's Diary, Vol. I, pp. 250, 335, 391; Schwab,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Confederate States,"
},... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rebellion,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Confederate Military History"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Alabama,"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lincoln, Vol. VIII, pp. 410-415; McPherson,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Rebellion,"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Confederate Military History,"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Alabama, pp. 548, 660;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Confederate Military History --Alabama, see Index. Bradley was a north Alabama man who had gone over to the enemy to save his property. This was his chief claim to notoriety. He became a prominent"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "History of Alabama, p. 158; Davis,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Confederate Government,"
}
] |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Southern Hist. Soc. Papers,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "History of Alabama, pp. 180, 181; Davis, Vol. I, pp. 480, 481; Hardy,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "History of Selma, pp. 46, 47; _N. Y. Times_, Nov. 2, 1865 (Truman); O. R., Ser. IV, Vol. III,... |
41680 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Santa Cave."
}
] |
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