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might have some questions to ask you.
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DR. PULLEN: I'll try to anticipate the
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questions. I think probably one of the finest books,
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a single book written on reconstruction and what it
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meant from the standpoint of government was written
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by Dr. Blake who is now head of the history department
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of the University of Baltimore. For twenty years he
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was in the archives. That book is called William H.
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Mahone of Virginia, who was a general. He started the
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reconstruction movement or the readjustment novement
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and he had great pouer in that State for some years.
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In this book Dr. Blake points out that the Constitution
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of Virginia, and this is true of all the southern states,
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was a reaction against what he called "Mahonism," a
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system of government in which certain selected ones were
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favored.
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You will find that this constitution attempts
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to do that. The very first article says it shall have sn
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efficient system throughout. My interpretation of that
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has been different a lot of times from other people,
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particularly people appropriating money. To me, it is
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