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Atlanta
might
perhaps
have
been
more
tolerant
toward
the
two
if
the
news
of
their
engagement
had
not
come
at
a
time
when
Rhett
's
Carpetbagger
and
Scallawag
cronies
were
more
odious
in
the
sight
of
respectable
citizens
than
they
had
ever
been
before
.
Public
feeling
against
the
Yankees
and
all
their
allies
was
at
fever
heat
at
the
very
time
when
the
town
learned
of
the
engagement
,
for
the
last
citadel
of
Georgia
's
resistance
to
Yankee
rule
had
just
fallen
.
The
long
campaign
which
had
begun
when
Sherman
moved
southward
from
above
Dalton
,
four
years
before
,
had
finally
reached
its
climax
,
and
the
state
's
humiliation
was
complete
.
Three
years
of
Reconstruction
had
passed
and
they
had
been
three
years
of
terrorism
.
Everyone
had
thought
that
conditions
were
already
as
bad
as
they
could
ever
be
.
But
now
Georgia
was
discovering
that
Reconstruction
at
its
worst
had
just
begun
.
For
three
years
the
Federal
government
had
been
trying
to
impose
alien
ideas
and
an
alien
rule
upon
Georgia
and
,
with
an
army
to
enforce
its
commands
,
it
had
largely
succeeded
.
But
only
the
power
of
the
military
upheld
the
new
regime
.
The
state
was
under
the
Yankee
rule
but
not
by
the
state
's
consent
.
Georgia
's
leaders
had
kept
on
battling
for
the
state
's
right
to
govern
itself
according
to
its
own
ideas
.
They
had
continued
resisting
all
efforts
to
force
them
to
bow
down
and
accept
the
dictates
of
Washington
as
their
own
state
law
.
Officially
,
Georgia
's
government
had
never
capitulated
but
it
had
been
a
futile
fight
,
an
ever-losing
fight
.
It
was
a
fight
that
could
not
win
but
it
had
,
at
least
,
postponed
the
inevitable
.
Already
many
other
Southern
states
had
illiterate
negroes
in
high
public
office
and
legislatures
dominated
by
negroes
and
Carpetbaggers
.
But
Georgia
,
by
its
stubborn
resistance
,
had
so
far
escaped
this
final
degradation
.
For
the
greater
part
of
three
years
,
the
state
's
capitol
had
remained
in
the
control
of
white
men
and
Democrats
.
With
Yankee
soldiers
everywhere
,
the
state
officials
could
do
little
but
protest
and
resist
.
Their
power
was
nominal
but
they
had
at
least
been
able
to
keep
the
state
government
in
the
hands
of
native
Georgians
.
Now
even
that
last
stronghold
had
fallen
.
Just
as
Johnston
and
his
men
had
been
driven
back
step
by
step
from
Dalton
to
Atlanta
,
four
years
before
,
so
had
the
Georgia
Democrats
been
driven
back
little
by
little
,
from
1865
on
.
The
power
of
the
Federal
government
over
the
state
's
affairs
and
the
lives
of
its
citizens
had
been
steadily
made
greater
and
greater
.
Force
had
been
piled
on
top
of
force
and
military
edicts
in
increasing
numbers
had
rendered
the
civil
authority
more
and
more
impotent
.
Finally
,
with
Georgia
in
the
status
of
a
military
province
,
the
polls
had
been
ordered
thrown
open
to
the
negroes
,
whether
the
state
's
laws
permitted
it
or
not
.
A
week
before
Scarlett
and
Rhett
announced
their
engagement
,
an
election
for
governor
had
been
held
.
The
Southern
Democrats
had
General
John
B.
Gordon
,
one
of
Georgia
's
best
loved
and
most
honored
citizens
,
as
their
candidate
.
Opposing
him
was
a
Republican
named
Bullock
.
The
election
had
lasted
three
days
instead
of
one
.
Trainloads
of
negroes
had
been
rushed
from
town
to
town
,
voting
at
every
precinct
along
the
way
.
Of
course
,
Bullock
had
won
.
If
the
capture
of
Georgia
by
Sherman
had
caused
bitterness
,
the
final
capture
of
the
state
's
capitol
by
the
Carpetbaggers
,
Yankees
and
negroes
caused
an
intensity
of
bitterness
such
as
the
state
had
never
known
before
.
Atlanta
and
Georgia
seethed
and
raged
.
And
Rhett
Butler
was
a
friend
of
the
hated
Bullock
!
