Identifier: upwardpathevolut1909helm (find matches)
Title: The upward path : the evolution of a race
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Helm, Mary, 1845-1913
Subjects: African Americans African Americans Blacks Blacks
Publisher: New York : Young People's Missionary Movement of the United States and Canada
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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legislative, judicial, and execu-tive powers were exercised, usually with-out regard to the interests of the whitepopulation. Through its influence theUnion League was formed among the Ne-groes—an organization whose inflammatoryteaching consolidated the Negro raceagainst the white and whose bitter fruitstill survives. Carpetbagger and Then camo the postbellum politicians-Scalawag - *^ carpetbagger and scalawag ^—whomade the Negroes the instruments by whichthey enriched themselves. Their oppor-tunity was the Fifteenth Amendment—nowgenerally acknowledged North and Southa national blunder—which enfranchised agreat mass of ignorant blacks and disfran-chised the most intelligent and conservativeclass of whites; their power was the Fed-eral army.DisaJtroSs ^^^ eight ycars following, known as theYears Eecoustructiou Period, possibly cost the 1 Tiie Negro Common School, Atlantic Monthly, March, 1901. 2 The carpetbagger came from the North, the scalawag■was a mean Southern white man.
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Copyright, Gilbo & Co. Abraham Lincoln First Years of Freedom 81 South more than the four years of warcost her.^ When these eight years of Ne-gro domination under carpetbag leadershad passed, the public indebtedness of theSouthern States had increased about four-fold. While the property values in all theStates had shrunk, in those which were un-der Negro rule they had fallen to lessthan half what they had been when theSouth entered upon that period. The Southdoes not hold that the Negro race was pri-marily responsible for this travesty of gov-ernment. Few reasonable men now chargethe Negroes at large with more than ig-norance and an invincible faculty for being* ^ worked on. But the consequences werenot the less disastrous. ^^ The injury to the whites was not the m^JS?only injury caused by the reconstructionsystem. To the Negro, the object of itsbounty, it was no less a calamity. He wastaught that the white man (Southern) washis enemy, when he should have been taughtto cultivate h

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