Curse of Cannan - The New Ensign

The military occupation of the South was further reinforced when President Grant passed the
aptly named Force Act of 1870. This act suspended habeas corpus and placed total power in the
hands of the military occupiers of the Southern states. His Enforcement Acts of 1871 put
Congressional elections in the South under the control of federal authorities, a method which
was revived in the 1 960s and 1 970s, when federal authorities again invaded the Southern states
to place elections under their supervision. These were the auspices under which the Constitution
of the United States was rewritten and nullfied. In 1877, twelve years after the end of the Civil
War, twelve years after the Thirteenth Amendment was ratified, nine years after the Fourteenth
Amendment was ratified, and seven years after the Fifteenth Amendment was ratified, President
Hayes withdrew the federal troops from the Southern states.
The scalawag looting of the impoverished South was typified by the career of Franklin Israel
Moses Jr. in South Carolina. His father had been appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
of South Carolina during the period of Reconstruction, serving in that office from 1868-1877.
Significantly, he ended his term when the federal troops were withdrawn. In 1866, Moses Jr.
began to publish a newspaper, Sumter News, which enthusiastically endorsed all four of the
Reconstruction Acts. He was elected as Speaker of the House by the "Loyal League," a scalawag
group. For more than a decade, he spent millions of dollars in lavish living, money which he
accumulated by accepting bribes in office, and by filing bogus state pay vouchers for hundreds
of nonexistent state employees. He also dealt heavily in fraudulent state contracts. He purchased
a $40,000 mansion (the equivalent of $10 million in today's money), and was renowned as the
biggest spender in South Carolina. With the withdrawal of federal troops, which zealously
protected the "rights" of such scoundrels, he came under scrutiny for his criminal acts. In 1878,
to avoid prosecution, he fled to Massachusetts, where he finally died in 1906. Throughout the
remainder of his life, he was known as a dope addict and confidence trickster. The Moses saga
is redolent of the aroma which attended every act of the scalawags and carpetbaggers in the
South.
In "The Tragic Era" by Claude Bowers, one of the many books which have documented the
excesses of the Reconstruction period, Bowers writes on p. 29, " ... in Louisiana, Sheridan rattling
the sword, was spluttering epithets in an attempt to save the Radicals he served from the
destruction they merited .... " Bowers describes the Reconstruction as "Cromwellian," an apt
description. The revolution in the South which it served to introduce was in essence a
Cromwellian interpretation of the Masonic Canaanite Order. The mockery of election laws and
indeed of the legal system under Reconstruction was remarkably exposed by Bowers when he
wrote of the Durell episode. A conservative group had elected John McEnery as Governor, but
an illegal returning board had ignored his election and given the Governorship to his opponent,
W. P. Kellogg, without even counting the votes, although a legal returning board had already
certified the election of McEnery. Bowers writes, "The drunken Federal Judge Durell, with the
trembling fingers of inebriety, had written his midnight injunction against the legal returning
board, and instructed U.S. Marshal Packard, the Republican manager, to take possession of the
State House .... The next morning, the besotted judge declared the lawful board illegal and
restrained it from counting the election returns." Bowers noted that "the audacity of the crime
rocked the Nation." Terming Durell a "drunken tyrant," Bowers chronicles the widespread protest
against his vicious act. Today, the name of Durell is still despised in the State of Louisiana as a
synonym for federal judicial tyranny. Durell was typical of the besotted Oriental despots, acting
with the backing of federal troops, as they still do today, who use the Constitution of the United
States as toilet tissue while they crush the people of Shem under the heels of their judicial Masonic
Order of Canaanite tyranny. It is the Durells who have made the federal courts the most hated
institutions in American life today, in 1987, just as Durell caused them to be despised in 1872.
Because of the depredations of such scalawags as Durell and Moses, the defeated Southerners
had lost more than $500 million in cash during the Civil War, the result of their patriotic purchases
of Confederate bonds, which were repudiated one hundred per cent by the scalawag legislatures.
Only their land holdings were left. Almost half of their assets were computed in their holdings
of slaves, and these were now gone. Much of their land was now confiscated, due to heavy
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