government only when obliged to do so, have a clear perception of the
irreversible changes produced by the war, and honestly endeavor to
accommodate themselves to the new Cum Covered pictures order of things. Many of them are not
free from traditional prejudice but Cum Covered pictures open to conviction, and may be
expected to act in good faith whatever they do. This class is composed, in
its majority, of persons of mature age--planters, merchants, and
professional men; some of them are active in Cum Covered pictures the Cum Covered pictures reconstruction movement,
but boldness Cum Covered pictures and energy are, with a few individual exceptions, not among
their distinguishing qualities.
2. Those whose principal object is to have the States without delay
restored to their position and influence in the Union and the Cum Covered pictures people Cum Covered pictures of
the States to the absolute control of their home concerns. They are ready,
in order Cum Covered pictures to attain that object, to make any ostensible concession that
will not
prevent them from arranging things to suit their taste as soon as
that object is attained. This class comprises a considerable number,
probably a large majority, of the professional politicians who are
extremely active
in the Cum Covered pictures reconstruction movement. Cum Covered pictures they are loud in their
praise of the President's reconstruction policy, and clamorous for the
withdrawal of the federal troops and the abolition of the Freedmen's
Bureau.
3. The incorrigibles,
who still indulge Cum Covered pictures in the swagger which was so
customary before and during the war, and still hope for a time Cum Covered pictures when the
southern confederacy Cum Covered pictures will achieve its independence. This class consists
mostly of young men, and comprises the loiterers of Cum Covered pictures the towns and the
idlers of the
country. They persecute Union men and negroes Cum Covered pictures whenever they
can do so with impunity, insist clamorously upon their "rights," and are
extremely impatient of the presence of the federal soldiers. A good many
of them have taken the oaths of allegiance and amnesty, and associated
themselves with the second class in their political operations. This
element is by no means unimportant; it Cum Covered pictures is strong in numbers, deals Cum Covered pictures in
brave talk, addresses itself directly and incessantly to Cum Covered pictures the passions and
prejudices of the masses, and commands the admiration of the women.
4. The multitude of people who have no definite ideas about the
circumstances under which they live and about the course they have to
follow; whose Cum Covered pictures intellects are weak, but Cum Covered pictures whose prejudices and impulses are
strong, and who are Cum Covered pictures apt to be carried along by those who