rnor, and was appointed in 1867 in place of another person. Served until 1869. Edmund Jackson Davis: native of Florida, president of the constitutional convention in 1869, became the radical republican governor of Texas in 1870. Pure personal life. 2. Scalawags and BlacksThe Scalawags did endorse black suffrage; most openly courted the black vote (they couldn’t be elected without it), and most believed that the better educated blacks had the right to hold office as well as to vote, but it’s apparent from their congressional records on such matters as enforcement of civil rights legislation that most Scalawags simply could not lay aside their heritage and wholeheartedly embrace the black cause. This may have differed much from carpetbaggers but they were less able to camoflauge their ingrained racist views of blacks. “Some equalities that I don’t believe in.” “Each can have equal protection under the law without being integrated.” That view which was common among scalawags anticipated the separate but equal doctine, which the supreme court would ennunciate in the Plessy vs. Ferguson case of 1896. For most scalawags, the alliance with blacks remained an inconvenience. 3. Corruption under the radical republicansFor several years following 1868, the radical had overwhelming majority in 7 state legislation and corruption was rampant. Politicans bribed legislators for party favors and busnissmen in corporation bribed politicans for economic priviledges. Votes were for sale everywhere at fixed prices. $600 would buy a senator’s vote in Lousiana. In Florida, sealed envelopes containing $100 or more were freely passed out on occasions of important votes. Blacks members of the florida legislation formed a smelling committee to .. Conditions were at their worst in SC, where state house supplies paid for out of public funds included liquors, table delicacies, furniture, and horses ad carriges. In litt...
