And apart from the organized influences at work, the poor whites never laid aside their hostility towards the blacks, bond or free.
When the campaigns grew exciting, the discipline of the order was used to prevent the Negroes from attending Democratic meetings and hearing Democratic speakers.

The leaders even went farther and forbade the attendance of the blacks at political meetings where the speakers were not endorsed by the League.

Almost invariably the scalawag disliked the Leaguer, black or white, and as a political teacher often found himself proscribed by the League.

At a Republican mass meeting in Alabama, a white Republican who wanted to make a speech was shouted down by the Negroes because he was "opposed to the Loyal League." He then went to another place to speak but was followed by the crowd, which refused to allow him to say anything.

All Republicans in good standing had to join the League and swear that secession was treason--a rather stiff dose for the scalawag.