Keep talking out your ass you Lost Cause Loser.
Well, bless your heart for the invite.
After the war was decided, men of the South accepted the situation of affairs in good faith. The questions which had divided the sentiment of the people of the two sections, slavery and State rights, or the right of a State to secede from the Union, were regarded as having been settled forever by the highest tribunal, arms.
There was such general acquiescence in the authority of the government throughout the southern states, that the mere presence of a military force, without regard to numbers, was sufficient to maintain order. The good of the country, and required that the force kept in the interior, where there are many freedmen. Elsewhere in the Southern States, other than at coastal forts, no force was necessary.
In some of the States, the Freedman's Bureau affairs were not conducted with good judgment, and the belief, widely spread among the freedmen of the Southern States, that the lands of their former owners would, at least in part, be divided among them, has came from agents of this bureau.
Many, perhaps the majority, of the agents of the Freedmen’s Bureau advised the freedmen that they were expected to live by their own industry. They worked to secure employment for them. In some instances, the freedman’s mind was not disabused of the idea that a freedman had the right to live without care or provision for the future. The effect of the belief in division of lands was idleness and accumulation in camps, towns, and cities.
Am I right, or am I a Lost Causer? You can say it. You know I'm right.
The Freedman's Bureau was hated by Southern whites because Southern whites felt it attempted to make Whites feel inferior to Blacks. Ultimately the Freedman's Bureau was under funded and eventually failed. Reconstruction was resisted in the South, resentful at was felt as Union occupation . And no, you're not right about anything concerning the CW. You like your buddy Diogenes get your head handed to by Bro Joe K, whom you never can refute and then like a petulant child you come after me.
You're so predictable.
woodpusher:
"Am I right, or am I a Lost Causer? You can say it. You know I'm right." jmacusa: "The Freedman's Bureau was hated by Southern whites... "
And occasionally resisted:
"Perhaps the most difficult region reported by the Freedmen's Bureau was Louisiana's Caddo and Bossier parishes in the northwest part of the state.
It had not suffered wartime devastation or Union occupation, but white hostility was high against the black majority population.
Well-meaning Bureau agents were understaffed and weakly supported by federal troops, and found their investigations blocked and authority undermined at every turn by recalcitrant plantation owners.
Murders of freedmen were common, and white suspects in these cases were not prosecuted...""...Other freedmen were killed or driven from their land by Arkansas Desperadoes.[32]
Whites were anxious about their power as blacks were to receive the franchise, and tensions were rising over land use.
In early October [1868], blacks arrested two whites from Arkansas "accused of being part of a mob ... that killed several Negroes."
The [Freedman's Bureau] agent reported 14 blacks had been killed in this incident, then said that another eight to ten had been killed by the same Desperadoes.
Blacks were reported to have killed the two white men in the altercation.[32]
The whites' Arkansas friends and local whites went on a rampage against blacks in the area, resulting in more than 150 blacks being killed.[33][32].... "
And then there were lynchings:
"The first severe period of violence in the South was between 1868 and 1871.
White Democrats attacked black and white Republicans to suppress their voting in elections.[42]
To prevent ratification of new [state] constitutions formed during Reconstruction, the opposition used various means to harass potential voters.
Failed attacks led to a massacre during the 1868 elections, with the insurgents' murders of about 1,300 voters across various southern states ranging from South Carolina to Arkansas."
And just so we're clear, those murderous insurgents were Democrats, still at war against the United States in 1868, as they are today.
So the Freedmen's Bureaus were very unpopular among Southern Whites and their opposition succeeded in getting Congress to abolish Freedmen's Bureaus in 1872, a full four+ years before the Union's Great Retreat from the South in 1877.
That Union withdrawal of troops enabled Southern white Democrats to retake political power and effectively nullify the 13th, 14th & 15th Amendments for nearly 100 years. ![]()