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Southern States, p. 157; Report of the House Railroad Investigation Committee, 1871; Herbert,
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Solid South, pp. 52, 53. Colonel Herbert says that the Alabama and Chattanooga officials _demanded_ the $2,000,000 and received it.
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Solid South, p. 53. The legislature that voted the gift of $2,000,000 was composed as follows: Senate, 32 Radicals and 1 Democrat; House, 85 Radicals (of whom 20 were negroes) and 15 doubtful Democrats. The carpet-bag editor of the _Demopolis Republican_ said:
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Men who never paid ten dollars' tax in their lives talk as flippantly of millions as the schoolboy of his marbles. Meanwhile, outsiders talk of buying and selling men at prices which would have been a disgrace to a slave before the war.