Ramsey, Alexander, 1815-1903 to Dr. J.J. Wardlaw

GLC09311

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GLC#
GLC09311
Type
Letters
Date
3 January 1867
Author/Creator
Ramsey, Alexander, 1815-1903
Title
to Dr. J.J. Wardlaw
Place Written
s.l.
Pagination
5 p. :
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
Reconstruction

Former Alabama slave owner comments on Reconstruction: "There will be in this country great distress and destitution; hundreds of men who were in good circumstances before the war are completely ruined. Suing and being sued is the order of the day.…And what the Radicals will do, can only be judged of by their former acts, and propositions now in their Congress. I believe they intend to give us a Territorial government, and place the negro over us in point of privilege. I hope however the good Lord may intervene and thwart their designs."

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