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William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 3: White reaction. (search)
et were not armed, as Kellogg and Billings knew. An hour later, Packard telegraphed to Attorney-general Williams: The people assembled at the meeting were generally unarmed. This talk about armed men was meant for Washington and New York, not for New Orleans. Go home, gentlemen, said Marr. Provide yourselves with rations and blankets, and assemble at two o'clock, when arms and leaders will be ready. Packard, feeling uneasy about the mass meeting, had telegraphed to Jackson, in Mississippi, for troops, and early in the day a company had arrived in New Orleans. These troops were at the Custom House. He now sent messages to Holly Springs, and was informed by wire that four additional companies were coming to his aid. He chuckled in his sleeve. There is little doubt of a conflict to-night, he joyfully telegraphed to Washington. I have a company of United States troops guarding the Custom House. Four companies are en route from Holly Springs. The local authorities ha
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 12: Georgia. (search)
gia failed to achieve her Pinchback. At present most of them are busy on their farms and homesteads, leaving politics alone, though every word from Vicksburg and Jackson, Shreveport and New Orleans, is apt to rouse them like a cry of fire. The session for 1875 is opening under great excitement. Unlike her neighbours, Florida agislative hall. Look, cry the scalawags, at Louisiana and Mississippi! There you have Negro sheriffs and assessors, judges and legislators. In New Orleans and Jackson you have Negro Senators, Negro Lieutenant-governors, and Federal armies keeping down the Whites. Louisiana sends Pinchback, Mississippi sends Rush, to represent State legislature. If not so lucky as Pinchback he may be as fortunate as Antoine. If he cannot reach Antoine, he may hope to rival Demas. If Pete can sit in Jackson or New Orleans, why should not Sam aspire to sit in Atlanta? The lowest senator, he hears, gets three dollars a day for doing nothing but loll in an easy chair,
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 15: shades of colour. (search)
y room, is de expens ob buryina us. The money spent on a Negro's funeral would keep his family for a couple of years. A frena ob mine die yesterday, says Bill; dey bury him dis afternoon, and make much funeral. Are you going to see the last of him? No, sir, I am not in his society. What society do you speak of? De buryina society. Ebery culled person is a member of two or three societies. He pay much money. When he die, dey have all big sight. In walking through Jackson's Ward towards the open country, for a peep at the picturesque ravines which surround the city and give it some rough resemblance to Jerusalem, we drop down a slope, leap over a stream, and are beginning to mount a second slope, when we are startled by a sob and moan that might have floated from the Temple wall. We turn to see the cause. Above us, on the height, is a cemetery with a few white posts and stones, and near the edge of this grassy slope stand a group of Negro women, sobbing at
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 16: coloured people at school. (search)
e folks to school. They will not take the pains. School hours are fixed, school habits orderly; and Negroes find it hard to keep fixed hours and to maintain order in their cabins. If their imps go to school, they must be called betimes, and must be washed and combed. Clothes need making and mending. Meals must be cooked, and the youngsters must be sent out early. Children bring home slates and books, and want a quiet corner for their evening tasks. But where, in the filthy cabins of Jackson's Ward, are they to find quiet nooks? And then, though schools are free, books and slates cost money; and the dollars spent on books and slates are so much taken from the margin left for drams and quids. Improvident fathers find the cost of school a burthen; indolent mothers find the worry of school a great addition to their cares. Such parents sicken at the efforts to be made; a strain from dawn to dusk; a self-denial from year to year; and, in their indolent selfishness, they let their