Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Haskins-Week-13 Title A name given to the resource This Week in Reconstruction, April 1-8, 1868 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Mallory Haskins Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource April 1-8, 1868 Description An account of the resource Where did all of the money go? The Virginia state Convention has run out of all its funds, spending the good money on nothing more than horseplay. The carpetbagger, scalawag, and "negro" members of the Convention are all crooked anyway. The Dispatch and the white Southerners it represents, view the committee as a "body of incompetent mercenary white interlopers, the vultures of camps who remained after the war, and ignorant negroes." General Grant himself demands that the Convention ceases to exist by April 6th. The Convention is a joke in itself. It has accomplished less than a room full of children could have and "most outrageously wasted the money of a prostrate and impoverished people." Even more saddening is the apathy of the Convention members. These members never did and never will care about the well-being of Virginia. All they want is their daily pay, and they will prolong the Convention for as long as possible to obtain "their eight dollars per diem!" How is Virginia expected to improve when it is in the hands of this bogus Convention? Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound The Klan under the Ban. If we could be surprised at anything in this day of proscription and oppression, we should be surprised at the order of General Meade leveled at the rumored new secret society of the Kuklux Klan. There have existed at the South ever since the war secret negro organizations, founded by interloping renegade whites, the effect of which was disorganized society, destroy industry, engender hostility between black and white, incite the blacks to outrages, and inflict upon the State the most serious injuries and disorders. These organizations, whose evil influences have been patent to all men, have been allowed to exist, and carry on their operations un-molested-nay, may we not say under the protection of the Federal army ? They have been spread over the entire South as well in General Meade's district as any other-and no official notice has been taken of them-no orders placing them under the ban. But this mooted Kuklux Klan is denounced, and its members put under surveillance, to be hunted like beasts of prey, before anything is positively known of its purposes, and before it has done anything, as far as we have heard, to menace anybody's rights, or disturb the peace of society". Any member of the Order, if caught, according to General Meade's order, is to be turned over to the civil authority; but if the "Alabama code" "is silent" with regard to his offence, he is to be surrendered to the post commander, and brought to trial by a " military commission " ! If there is no law against the poor fellow, the law must be made for him ! The worst intent attributed to the Kuklux is not more evil than that of the existing Radical clubs; but one is black and the other white, we suppose; and here is the difference! This statement is sufficient without comment. URL http://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=DD18680408&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1868-04-08 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context HaskinsMallory-18680408-TheKlanundertheBan.pdf Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Richmond Daily Dispatch Title A name given to the resource The Klan under the Ban