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element held a meeting in north Alabama about the first of June.[895] Resolutions were introduced by K. B. Seawell to the effect that the government of Alabama had been illegally set aside in 1861 by a combination of persons regardless of the best interests of the state, that secession was not the act of the people, and that the Confederacy was a usurpation. It was decided that Alabama must go back to the Union, and the authority of the United States was invoked to enable
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citizens to form a state government.[896] The sentiments of the more violent
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or tories may be understood from a letter of D. H. Bingham,[897] then at West Point, New York. He said that reconstruction must not be committed to the hands of the
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; that Parsons, who was spoken of for provisional governor, was not one of the
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men of Alabama and would use his influence to secure control to the old slave dynasty; that his appointment would be unfair to the
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men; that the masses were coerced and deluded into fighting the battles of slavery;
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I, George W. Lane,[898] and J. H. Larcombe, he said,
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The non-slaveholding whites in slaveholding districts were trained to obey, he wrote, and the official class used its influence to keep the non-slaveholders in ignorance. Hence the small number of slaveholders (of whom most were owners of few slaves and hence were union men) controlled the
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population of over 5,000,000. He said that the Alabama delegates, then in Washington,[899] were not inactive in producing these results, though they claimed to be
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They were once