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That
was
a
shot
in
the
dark
.
She
had
never
been
absolutely
certain
that
Rhett
owned
the
house
.
He
laughed
suddenly
,
as
though
he
read
her
mind
.
"
Thanks
for
the
suggestion
.
"
Had
he
tried
,
Rhett
could
not
have
chosen
a
more
difficult
time
to
beat
his
way
back
to
respectability
.
Never
before
or
after
did
the
names
Republican
and
Scallawag
carry
such
odium
,
for
now
the
corruption
of
the
Carpet
bag
regime
was
at
its
height
.
And
,
since
the
surrender
,
Rhett
's
name
had
been
inextricably
linked
with
Yankees
,
Republicans
and
Scallawags
.
Atlanta
people
had
thought
,
with
helpless
fury
,
in
1866
,
that
nothing
could
be
worse
than
the
harsh
military
rule
they
had
then
,
but
now
,
under
Bullock
,
they
were
learning
the
worst
.
Thanks
to
the
negro
vote
,
the
Republicans
and
their
allies
were
firmly
entrenched
and
they
were
riding
rough-shod
over
the
powerless
but
still
protesting
minority
.
Word
had
been
spread
among
the
negroes
that
there
were
only
two
political
parties
mentioned
in
the
Bible
,
the
Publicans
and
the
Sinners
.
No
negro
wanted
to
join
a
party
made
up
entirely
of
sinners
,
so
they
hastened
to
join
the
Republicans
.
Their
new
masters
voted
them
over
and
over
again
,
electing
poor
whites
and
Scallawags
to
high
places
,
electing
even
some
negroes
.
These
negroes
sat
in
the
legislature
where
they
spent
most
of
their
time
eating
goobers
and
easing
their
unaccustomed
feet
into
and
out
of
new
shoes
.
Few
of
them
could
read
or
write
.
They
were
fresh
from
cotton
patch
and
canebrake
,
but
it
was
within
their
power
to
vote
taxes
and
bonds
as
well
as
enormous
expense
accounts
to
themselves
and
their
Republican
friends
.
And
they
voted
them
.
The
state
staggered
under
taxes
which
were
paid
in
fury
,
for
the
taxpayers
knew
that
much
of
the
money
voted
for
public
purposes
was
finding
its
way
into
private
pockets
.
Completely
surrounding
the
state
capitol
was
a
host
of
promoters
,
speculators
,
seekers
after
contracts
and
others
hoping
to
profit
from
the
orgy
of
spending
,
and
many
were
growing
shamelessly
rich
.
They
had
no
difficulty
at
all
in
obtaining
the
state
's
money
for
building
railroads
that
were
never
built
,
for
buying
cars
and
engines
that
were
never
bought
,
for
erecting
public
buildings
that
never
existed
except
in
the
minds
of
their
promoters
.
Bonds
were
issued
running
into
the
millions
.
Most
of
them
were
illegal
and
fraudulent
but
they
were
issued
just
the
same
.
The
state
treasurer
,
a
Republican
but
an
honest
man
,
protested
against
the
illegal
issues
and
refused
to
sign
them
,
but
he
and
others
who
sought
to
check
the
abuses
could
do
nothing
against
the
tide
that
was
running
.
The
state-owned
railroad
had
once
been
an
asset
to
the
state
but
now
it
was
a
liability
and
its
debts
had
piled
up
to
the
million
mark
.
It
was
no
longer
a
railroad
.
It
was
an
enormous
bottomless
trough
in
which
the
hogs
could
swill
and
wallow
.
Many
of
its
officials
were
appointed
for
political
reasons
,
regardless
of
their
knowledge
of
the
operation
of
railroads
,
there
were
three
times
as
many
people
employed
as
were
necessary
,
Republicans
rode
free
on
passes
,
carloads
of
negroes
rode
free
on
their
happy
jaunts
about
the
state
to
vote
and
revote
in
the
same
elections
.
The
mismanagement
of
the
state
road
especially
infuriated
the
taxpayers
for
,
out
of
the
earnings
of
the
road
,
was
to
come
the
money
for
free
schools
.
But
there
were
no
earnings
,
there
were
only
debts
,
and
so
there
were
no
free
schools
and
there
was
a
generation
of
children
growing
up
in
ignorance
who
would
spread
the
seeds
of
illiteracy
down
the
years
.
