Hamilton James Eckenrode, The Political History of Virginia during the Reconstruction… (1904)
“ In the beginning of the reconstruction a considerable and influential part of the conservative people, chiefly Whigs, attempted to unite with the blacks in the Republican party, but were repulsed by them; in fact, the extreme radical attitude of the freedmen was one of the chief causes of the united opposition of the whites to negro suffrage. ”
Hamilton James Eckenrode, The Political History of Virginia during the Reconstruction… (1904)
“ The policy of the Republicans in the constitutional convention of 1868 was to make the negro a full citizen by granting him suffrage, the right to office-holding and jury-service; to provide him with education; and to give him the chance of attaining economic independence. (8) The restoration of Virginia was due to the joint action of the conservatives and of the Republicans hostile to extreme radicalism. ”
