upport them. (Charles Hays): was a democrat, confederate soldier, and one of the wealthiest slave holders in Alabama blackbelt. He defied the scalawag mold. After Southern surrender when his white neighbors became democrats, he joined the republican party. Facing health problems and postwar economic difficulties, Hays was often absent from house debates. He accepted money for one of his nominations to the military academy. At times, he was the party’s pragmist. His felt that the republican party in the south couldn’t survive without white votes but he also promoted the freedmen’s rights. Joe Gray Taylor: He says that some native whites became republicans out of convicton. Some men who had been whigs became republicans b/c anything was better than being a democrat like Joshua Hill. Very few of the farmers class became republicans (speaking only of Louisiana). No figures of available of finding a reasonable estimate. In 1865 and 1866, Stamp observes that the scalawags were “an absurd of colliton of class conscious poor whites and yeoman farmers who hated the planters” and that would fit Trelease’s depiction of the native whites republicans living in upper south and “class conscious whig planters and business who dislikes the egalitarian democrats” and that would fit the profile of blackbelt planters. What the teacher’s suggesting is that in the upper south the radical (?) republican (?) members were commonfolk, small white farmers; whereas in the lower south, the leadership was recruited among the planter business class. Notable Texas scalawags included Andrew Jackson Hamilton of Texas, native of Ala, and a former congressmen and became unionist during the civil war and had been appointed military governor of Texas by Lincoln and then was appointed provisional governor by Johnson in 1865. Elisha Pease, a native of conn, who came to Tx in early 1835, served as 4 years as democratic gove...
