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Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Chapter 52: President Johnson's reconstruction and further bureau legislation for 1866 (search)
delicate and dangerous duties, gave rise to increased anxiety everywhere and seemed to necessitate an increase of military force. General Clinton B. Fisk had good results in Tennessee in 1866. The State legislature took liberal action in matters of vagrancy, or apprenticing and contracts which affected the freedmen; they modified the old laws to conform to the Thirteenth Amendment of the Constitution and to the Civil-Rights-Law. Before General Fisk, in September, was relieved by General J. R. Lewis, he took occasion by a circular, widely published, to transfer all cases to the civil officers elected by the people, to call their attention afresh to the United States laws involved, and to entreat them to lay aside all feelings of prejudice, in order that the State laws might be administered in such a manner as not to compel a return to military courts. We all believed then that greater security for the life and property of the freed people existed in Tennessee than in any other o
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Chapter 53: the bureau work in 1866; President Johnson's first opposition (search)
erference of the Bureau is absolutely essential to secure justice. When this influence has been wisely directed, and the authority of the Bureau brought to bear firmly but kindly, the happiest consequences have followed, not only protecting the freedmen in individual cases, but changing the tone and temper of the people, so as to prevent the recurrence of acts of injustice and oppression. The continuance and agency of the Bureau is still a necessity. The case of maladministration of Captain Lewis J. Lambert is the only one mentioned among two hundred and seventy-three agents. This will be thoroughly investigated by General Tillson. I am thankful for so great purity of administration in Georgia. I may say here with reference to legal justice, that the policy pursued constantly has been to transfer jurisdiction to civil tribunals wherever there was a prospect of its impartial exercise under just laws; in fact, it has been the practice in most Bureau courts to use the State laws
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Index (search)
395, 397-401, 403, 407, 413, 416, 419-421, 430, 432, 434, 435, 440, 445, 492, 498, 580; II, 124, 153, 154, 163, 309,582. Lee, Robert M., I, 245, 248. Lee, S. D., I, 85; II, 21, 22, 25, 36, 41, 57, 64, 120, 131, 141, 151, 152. Lee, S. P., I, 443. Lee, Wellesley, II, 387. Lee, W. H. F., I, 358. Leech, Susie, II, 530. Leech, William A., II, 527. Leech, William A., Mrs., II, 527. Leggett, M. D., I, 611,612; II, 5, 7, 8, 11, 101, 465, 466. Lemon, Mr., II, 494. Lewis, J. R., II, 290. Lightburn, Joseph A. J., II, 14. Lincoln, Abraham, I, 102, 104, 135, 137, 139, 176, 180, 182, 188, 193, 196, 200, 202, 209, 256, 271, 309, 310, 312, 349, 350, 379, 385, 452-454, 492; II, 42, 94, 155, 156, 159, 168, 169, 180, 183, 190, 197, 201, 205, 207, 319, 321, 325. Lincoln Memorial University, II, 68, 569, 588. Iindsley, Rev., II, 468, 471. Livermore, D. S., II, 187. Lloyd, Howard, II, 544. Lockwood, Henry H., I, 390. Lockwood, L. C., I, 128; II, 175.