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Rick Perry Wants to Amend the Constitution for Supreme Court Term Limits

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Obdicut (Now with 2% less brain)9/01/2011 10:44:38 am PDT

Final historical side note: Many of the carpetbaggers were very decent men whose sole problem was actually beleiving in the equality of the races.

A politician in South Carolina who was called a carpetbagger was Daniel Henry Chamberlain, a New Englander who had served as an officer of a predominantly black regiment of the United States Colored Troops. He was appointed South Carolina’s attorney general from 1868 to 1872 and was elected Republican governor from 1874 to 1877. As a result of the national Compromise of 1877, Chamberlain lost his office. He was narrowly re-elected in a campaign marked by egregious voter fraud and violence against freedmen by Democratic Red Shirts, who succeeded in suppressing the black vote in some majority-black counties. While serving in South Carolina, Chamberlain was a strong supporter of Negro rights.