[The Sequel of Appomattox by Walter Lynwood Fleming]@TWC D-Link bookThe Sequel of Appomattox CHAPTER VI 20/21
The Negroes, expecting now to reap some benefits of reconstruction, frequently brought sacks to the polls to "put the franchise in." The elections were all over by June 1868, and the newly elected legislatures promptly ratified the Fourteenth Amendment. It now remained for Congress to approve the work done in the South and to readmit the reorganized states.
The case of Alabama gave some trouble.
Even Stevens, for a time, thought that this state should stay out; but there was danger in delay.
The success of the abstention policy in Alabama and Arkansas and the reviving interest of the whites foreshadowed white majorities in some places; the scalawags began to forsake the radical party for the conservatives; and there were Democratic gains in the North in 1867.
Only six states, New York and five New England States, allowed the Negro to vote, while four states, Minnesota, Michigan, Kansas, and Ohio, voted down Negro suffrage after the passage of the reconstruction acts.
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