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Carpetbagger of Conscience : A Biography of John Emory Bryant Reconstructing America (Series) ; No. 3
author
:
Currie-McDaniel, Ruth.
publisher
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Fordham University Press
isbn10 | asin
:
0823219380
print isbn13
:
9780823219384
ebook isbn13
:
9780585125466
language
:
English
subject
Bryant, John Emory,--1836-1900, Politicians--Georgia--Biography, Reconstruction--Georgia.
publication date
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1999
lcc
:
F291.B9C87 1999eb
ddc
:
975.8/041/092
subject
:
Bryant, John Emory,--1836-1900, Politicians--Georgia--Biography, Reconstruction--Georgia.
Page i
Carpetbagger of Conscience
Page ii
John Emory Bryant
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Carpetbagger of Conscience
A Biography of John Emory Bryant
Ruth Currie-McDaniel
Fordham University Press New York 1999
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Copyright 1999 by Ruth Currie-McDaniel All rights reserved LC 99-18335 ISBN 0-8232-1937-2 (hardcover) ISBN 0-8232-1938-0 (paperback) ISSN 1523-4606 Reconstructing America, no. 3
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Currie-McDaniel, Ruth. Carpetbagger of conscience: a biography of John Emory Bryant / Ruth Currie-McDaniel. p. cm.(Reconstructing America; no. 3) Originally published: Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1987. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8232-1937-2 (hc).ISBN 0-8232-1938-0 (pbk.) 1. Bryant, John Emory. 2. PoliticiansGeorgia Biography. 3. ReconstructionGeorgia. I. Title. II. Series: Reconstructing America (Series); no. 3. F291. B9C87 1999 975.8'041 '092dc21 [B]99-18335 CIP
The photograph of John Emory Bryant is reproduced courtesy of the Maine State Archives.
Printed in the United States of America
Page v
Contents
Introduction to the 1999 Edition
vii
Acknowledgments
xvii
Introduction
1
One Maine Background
4
Two Bryant in the Civil War
19
Three Presidential Reconstruction
42
Four Congressional Reconstruction
77
Five Bryant and the Strategic Shift of Republicans in the 1870s
118
Six The Closing Decades
155
Conclusion: John Emory Bryant in Retrospect
180
Notes
185
Selected Bibliography
221
Index
233
Page vii
Introduction To the 1999 Edition
Carpetbagger of Conscience: A Biography of John Emory Bryant was first published in 1987. Since that time, various reviews of the book, plus monographs concerning Reconstruction history, have continued to assess the career of John Emory Bryant. This reissue of Carpetbagger of Conscience offers the opportunity to respond to recent publications and to take another look at this man who generated so much conflict during his lifetime and who still requires careful scrutiny to evaluate properly.
Reviewers continued the book's dialogue regarding Bryant's "conscience." The title of the book could well have displayed a question mark after it. Was Bryant, after all, a carpetbagger of conscience, or was he "just another corrupt politician"? The ambiguity emerged at every stage of his career, and reviewers rightly sensed the difficulty of a definitive answer. One pundit thought that in Carpetbagger of Conscience John Emory Bryant received "less than his due as a courageous champion of justice and equality.1 But another wrote that the biographer "largely exonerates... [him] from the taint of political opportunism."2 One rightly noted that the book gathered ''too much damaging evidence to proclaim him virtuous.3 Actually, the biography never claimed that JEB was "a paragon of consistency and virtue,'' as another reviewer charged.4 Rather, it showed him egotistical and abrasive, openly devoted to "'look[ing] out for No. 1'" (p23), and "'determined to go forward... regardless of the consequences'" (p18). At the same time, clearly, Bryant came out of the evangelical reform movement of the nineteenth century. He was self-righteous and given to seeing the evils of society as his own personal crusade, as a matter of conscience. That same devotion to his causes made him the controversial politician that he was and a formidable enemy to those who opposed him. This does not make him a virtuous man. But neither does it diminish the validity of his causes of
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