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" The Speaker is black, the Clerk is black, the door-keepers are black, the little pages are black, the chairman of the Ways and Means is black, and the chaplain is coal-black. "
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The Prostrate State: South Carolina Under Negro Government

James Shepherd Pike - History - 1874 - 302 pages
...the professed exponent of an advanced type of modern civilization. But the reader will find almost any portraiture inadequate to give a vivid idea of...Carolina Legislature, without observing its details. I The (Speaker js_. black, the Clerk_ i^JW^ck, the door-keepers are black, tHeTIttle pages are black,...
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A Reply to "A Fool's Errand, by One of the Fools"

William Lawrence Royall - Reconstruction - 1881 - 172 pages
...the professed exponent of an advanced type of modern civilization. But the reader will find almost any portraiture inadequate to give a vivid idea of...Carolina Legislature without observing its details. Thu Speaker is black, the clerk is black, the doorkeepers are black, the little pages are black, the...
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The Reconstruction Period, Volume 16

Peter Joseph Hamilton - History - 1905 - 654 pages
...of a white constituency and the professed exponent of an advanced type of modern civilization. . . . The Speaker is black, the Clerk is black, the door-keepers...of the Ways and Means is black, and the chaplain is coal-black. At some of the desks sit colored men whose types it would be hard to find outside of Congo...
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Hampton and Reconstruction

Edward Laight Wells - Reconstruction - 1907 - 274 pages
...the professed exponent of an advanced type of modern civilization. But the reader will find almost any portraiture inadequate to give a vivid idea of...black, the chairman of the ways and means is black, the chaplain is coal-black. At some of the desks sit colored men whose types it would be hard to find...
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A Source History of the United States: From Discovery (1492) to End of ...

Howard Walter Caldwell, Clark Edmund Persinger - United States - 1909 - 512 pages
...opposition, we find 101 remaining. Of this 101, 94 are colored, and seven are their white allies. . . . The Speaker is black, the Clerk is /black, the door-keepers are black, the little pages are black . . -.' and the chaplain is coal-black. . . . One of the things that first strikes a casual observer...
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Readings in American History

James Alton James - United States - 1914 - 606 pages
...the professed exponent of an advanced type of modern civilization. But the reader will find almost any portraiture inadequate to give a vivid idea of...of the Ways and Means is black, and the chaplain is coal-black. At some of the desks sit colored men whose types it would be hard to find outside of Congo;...
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Lectures on the Growth and Development of the United States ..., Volume 9

Edwin Wiley, Irving Everett Rines, Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1916 - 606 pages
...the remaining one hundred and one "ninety- four are colored and seven are their white allies. * * * The speaker is black, the clerk is black, the door-keepers...of the Ways and Means is black and the chaplain is coal-black. At some of the desks sit colored men whose types it would be hard to find outside of Congo,...
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The United States in Our Own Times, 1865-1924

Paul Leland Haworth - United States - 1925 - 634 pages
...and hid the absence of linen. Heavy brogans and short torn trousers it was impossible to hide. . . . The Speaker is black, the Clerk is black, the doorkeepers are black, the chairman of the Ways and Means is black, and the chaplain is coal black. ... At some of the desks sit...
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Political and Social History of the United States: 1829-1925

Arthur Meier Schlesinger - United States - 1925 - 624 pages
...excerpt is taken, James S. Pike, a Northern newspaper man, described the legislature of South Carolina: "The Speaker is black, the clerk is black, the door-keepers...and Means is black, and the chaplain is coal black. . . . No one is allowed to talk five minutes without interruption, and the one interruption is the...
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Ousting the Carpetbagger from South Carolina

Henry Tazewell Thompson - Reconstruction - 1925 - 226 pages
...representative of a white constituency, and the professed exponent of an advanced modern civilization. * * * The Speaker is black, the clerk is black, the door-keepers...pages are black, the Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee is black, the chaplain is coal black." The New England abolitionist evidently found the South...
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