Caldwell County MO Archives History .....WHEN SOUTHERN SOLDIERS DID NOT VOTE IN CALDWELL COUNTY 
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WHEN SOUTHERN SOLDIERS DID NOT VOTE IN CALDWELL COUNTY
	Narrator:  Mrs. Henry George

     Mrs. George (nee Addie Martin, ex-teacher of Hamilton) was the wife of 
Henry George, who served in the Confederate ranks from the south part of 
Caldwell county.  In fact, a limp in his walk showed his service.
     His name was on the roll of "Disloyal Citizens" which was made in every 
county during the war, 1862.  His father's name was there also.  They had been 
brought up in the ideas of the south.
     After the end of the war, they had to suffer for their opinions.  The 
Drake constitution of Missouri passed 1865 took away from them the right of 
suffrage, for every one who went to the polls to vote had to take the oath of 
loyalty which said that they had never adhered by act or word to the service 
of the Confederate government.  That meant that many Democrats in the state 
were deprived of their vote.  It meant that many people who had quite a bit of 
property could not have a voice in voting taxes on it.  Mr. George often spoke 
of the terrible feeling which came about from the passage of that 
constitution, even some of the northern people in the state thought that 
Missouri was too hard on the ex-Confederates.  There were preachers who had 
served in different ways or whose names were on the "disloyal" list who could 
not preach, and teachers who could not teach.  The father of T.S. Kenney 
(former pastor in the Baptist church here) was a disbarred preacher.  About 
1870, this "iron clad" oath was abolished and Mr. Henry George again had the 
right to go to the polls and cast his vote. 


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