[185] Reynolds, Reconstruction in South Carolina, p. 5. [186] _Charleston Courier_, June 19, 1865. [187] Ibid. July 18, 1865. [188] Ibid. Dec. 7, 1865. [189] Ibid. June 30, 1865. [190] Ibid. Aug. 1, 1865. [191] Burgess, Reconstruction and the Constitution, p. 45. [192] Dunning, Reconstruction, Political and Economic, pp. 56, 57. [193] Statutes S. C. Vol. 13, p. 299. [194] Dunning, Reconstruction, Political and Economic, pp. 57, 58. [195] Ibid. p. 58. [196] Statutes, S. C. Vol. 13, p. 246. [197] Burgess, Reconstruction and the Constitution, p. 46. [198] Statutes S. C. Vol. 13, p. 251. [199] Ibid. p. 286. [200] Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery, p. 84. [201] Gen. D. H. Hill, The Land We Love, Vol. I, p. 8. [202] _News and Courier_, May 13, 1874. [203] Stephenson, Lincoln, p. 398. [204] Jefferson Davis, Rise and Fall of Confederate Govt., V. 2, p. 610. [205] Gen. D. H. Hill, The Land We Love, Vol. II, No. IV, p. 1. [206] Ibid. Vol. I, No. 1, p. 9. [207] Ibid. Vol. III, p. 85, No. 1. [208] Statutes, S. C. Vol. 14, p. 386. [209] Darragh, Contemporary Review, Jan. 1902, p. 100. [210] Thomas, The American Negro, p. 298. [211] DuBois, Reconstruction and Its Benefits, Am. Hist. Rev. Vol. XV, 4, p. 793. [212] Ibid. p. 790. [213] _News and Courier_, October 27, 1874. [214] Ibid. October 3, 1874. [215] Journal Diocesan Convention, S. C. 1876, p. 25. [216] Probate Court Charleston, Will Book—L., p. 518. [217] Reynolds, Reconstruction in South Carolina, p. 343. [218] Ibid. p. 350, _News and Courier_, August 17, 1876. [219] Ibid. p. 364. [220] _News and Courier_, December 1, 1876. [221] Statutes S. C. Vol. 17, p. 3. [222] Journal Diocesan Convention, S. C., 1888. [223] Ibid. 1891, p. 151. [224] Geo. W. Curtis, Letter to Author, January 19, 1886. [225] Ibid. December 6, 1888. [226] _News and Courier_, July 8, 1889. [227] Ibid. [228] Ibid. Aug. 20, 1889. [229] Ibid. Aug. 22, 1889. [230] Ibid. Dec. 23, 1889. [231] Ibid. Jan. 17, 1890. CHAPTER X As has been heretofore stated, George William Curtis, the most eminent representative of former abolition sentiment, at that date (1888), still alive in the United States, had propounded a query to the author concerning political advantages obtained through the possession of the suppressed vote swelling the electoral strength of the States, possibly compelled to suppress its exercise. Hampton, the most illustrious representative and “one of the most distinguished leaders”[232] of the overthrown slavocracy, had, in his reply to a press interview, indicated how little desirous he thought the South was of retaining any advantage based on its possession, and his lieutenant, Butler, elaborating the argument, had pressed for a diffusion of the Negroes throughout the United States. The fates gave Mr. Curtis the last word. In _Harper’s Weekly_ in the early part of 1891 appeared an editorial entitled “A Sign of the Times.” It was in part as follows: