Destroying the Republic: -- Jabez Curry -- and the -- Re-education -- of the Old South -- Destroying the Republic: -- Jabez Curry -- and the -- Re-education -- of the Old South -- John Chodes -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- I -- II -- III -- Chapter 1. Advocate for State Sovereignty -- The South Feels Hated by the North -- Punitive Policies Benefit North -- Slavery -- One Reason for Northern Hatred -- But - Slavery Drives Northern Economy -- Few Southerners Owned Slaves -- Test Oaths Would Divide South -- Republican Philosophies Mean War -- 1860 Republican Party Platform: No Secession -- 1860 Republican Party Platform: No Slavery -- Horatio Seymour, New York's Governor, Defends Slavery -- 1856 Democratic Party Platform Defends Sovereignty/Slavery -- Constitution Protects Slavery -- North-South Hatred Escalates Into War -- John Brown's Raid -- Interlude: Curry's Personality and Physiology -- Secession -- Lincoln's Victory by Conflicts Over State Sovereignty -- Last Days of the Union -- Chapter 2. Curry and the Confederacy -- The Impending War -- Ft. Sumter and War -- A New Nation -- Some Cabinet Members and Vice President -- The Capital Moves to Richmond -- Curry Observes Battle of Bull Run -- The Confederate Constitution -- The President -- Curry's Contributions to the Constitution -- Congress -- Philosophical Conflicts over Constitution -- Slavery -- The Supreme Court -- Curry and the Flag Committee -- Curry's Observations of Fellow Congressmen -- Curry Opposes Kentucky and Missouri into Confederacy -- Efforts to Gain European Recognition -- Curry, Guardian of State Sovereignty -- Curry Observes Retreat from Corinth -- Curry on Battle of Richmond and Jefferson Davis -- War Defeats Become Political Defeat -- Mrs. Curry, Last Days in Congress, War -- Chapter 3. Curry's Early Georgia Years -- Lincoln County: The Dark Corner.

Indian Wars in Georgia -- Maternal Ancestors -- My Name -- My Mother and Step-Mother -- Early School Days -- The "Turn-Out" -- The Great Meteor Shower -- Georgia Courts and Lawyers -- Georgia Doctors -- The Waddell School -- Fighting -- Georgia Politics -- Horse Racing -- Georgia Militia -- Courting -- White and Black Preachers -- Hunting and Fishing -- Slaves -- The Move to Alabama -- Chapter 4. Curry Goes to War -- Joseph Eggleston Johnston, the Soldier -- The Peninsula Campaign -- Curry and Joe Wheeler's Cavalry -- "Fighting Joe" Wheeler -- Curry Commands 5th Alabama Cavalry -- Curry and Forrest -- Selma, Curry's Last Great Battle -- Chapter 5. Jabez Curry, Political Exile -- Reconstruction, An Introduction -- Anarchy in South -- Negroes, Freedom, Destitution, Death -- Presidential Reconstruction: Lincoln's Plan -- Presidential Reconstruction: Andrew Johnson's Plan -- Destitution for Alabama Whites -- Congressional Reconstruction -- "State Suicide" -- "Conquered Province" -- The Radicals, 19th Century Stalinists -- Military in South Means Military in North -- Curry Marries Again -- The Wedding -- A New Career -- The 14th Amendment: Nationalizing Justice Splits Races -- Alabama Rejects 14th Amendment -- 14th Amendment Ratified After Veto -- The 15th Amendment: Nationalizing Votes Splits Races -- Alabama Rejects Constitution -- Forced Into Union -- Jabez Curry's Diary -- Curry Moves to Virginia -- Chapter 6. Curry's Background: Going to Alabama -- Beauty of Talladega County -- Talladega County: Historical Origin -- Frontier vs. Civilized Life -- The First Steamboat -- Bad Roads -- Flush Times: Private Currency -- Flush Times: Silkworm Madness -- Franklin College -- The Curriculum -- Senior Year -- Vacation: Passing the Future Atlanta -- First Social Experience With Women -- Presidential Politics -- The "Stump" Necessary for a Republic.

Going to Dane Law School -- Rutherford B. Hayes -- Abolitionists -- National Politics: 1844 -- Horace Mann -- Graduates Law School -- Meets Calhoun -- Amusing Tale of Senator Colquitt -- Curry, as a Lawyer, Works for Mr. Rice -- Curry Volunteers for Mexican War -- Chapter 7. Southern Preaching as Guerrilla War -- Fusing England's Church and State, or the South's? -- The State As Church -- Early Church Fuses with Roman Empire -- Roman Empire Controls Christian Church -- Clergy Become Part of Government -- Reformation Continues Fusion of Church and State -- The Act of Uniformity -- The Thirty-Nine Articles of the Book of Prayer -- 1664 Seditious Conventicles -- Loyalty Oaths: Rebellion Illegal -- Virginia Wins Back Religious Freedom -- Religious and Loyalty Tests are Valueless -- The New Testament -- Parable of State Sovereignty -- New Testament as "Strict Construction" of Constitution -- Established Church Creates Dissolute Clergy -- The English-Irish Question or the Southern Question? -- Irish or Southern Home Rule? -- Chapter 8. Reconstruction as Re-education -- Re-education through Reconstruction Constitutions -- North Carolina's Educational Clause -- The Freedmen's Bureau and Education for Blacks -- The Bureau: Schools for Black Radical Republicans -- Bureau Schools Perpetuate Racism -- The Freedmen's Bureau: Bastion of Radical Philosophy -- False Atrocities for Revolution -- The Freedmen's Bureau as Marxist Government -- The Freedmen's Bureau Educates Blacks -- The Freedmen's Bureau Re-educates Whites -- General Oliver Otis Howard -- Oliver Otis Howard vs. Andrew Johnson -- The Freedmen's Bureau Spreads Into North -- The Freedmen's Bureau and 1868 Presidential Election -- End of the Bureau -- Continuation of the Bureau -- Chapter 9. Curry's Background: Alabama Politics to Congress -- First Marriage -- Politics, Farming, South-North Splitting.

Pre-War Southern Schools -- Curry's First Success In School Legislation -- Death of Curry's Father -- The "Know-Nothings" and Alabama Assembly -- The Internal Improvements Committee -- The State Bank Fiasco -- Curry as US Congressman -- Curry's Second Term in Congress -- Chapter 10. Curry's Mental Transition -- Moving to Virginia -- Curry's Mental Transition: The Readjuster Movement -- Chapter 11. Jabez Curry and the Peabody Education Fund -- Robert Winthrop Picks Sears as General Agent -- Barnas Sears, Disciple of Horace Mann -- Horace Mann -- Barnas Sears' Second Plan -- Barnas Sears' Third Plan -- Peabody and the Freedmen's Bureau -- Sears and Normal Schools -- Sears' Death: His Unfinished Business -- Sears and Curry -- Why Did Curry Become General Agent? -- Curry on Sears -- Curry's Role as General Agent -- Edwin Alderman Sees Curry Speak -- Curry Deceives about Pre-War Southern Schools -- Ulysses Grant, Peabody Trustee -- Grant Begins as a Moderate -- Grant's Mental Transition -- Mutiny and Threatened Coups -- Grant, the Tenure of Office Act -- Impeachment -- Grant and the Impeachment -- Grant, O.O. Howard, and the Freedmen's Bureau -- Ulysses S. Grant, Presidential Candidate -- Argus Editorial: "Grant on Unconstitutional Laws" -- Ulysses S. Grant: Radical President -- Grant Interferes in State Elections -- Grant and the Peabody Fund -- Chapter 12. Rutherford B. Hayes, Curry, and the Peabody Fund -- The Election of 1876 -- Hayes' Background -- Curry and the Hayes Election -- Hayes Pretends to End Occupation of South -- Hayes and Education -- Hayes and the Peabody Fund -- Curry, Hayes, and the Slater Fund -- Hayes, Like Curry, in Transition -- Chapter 13. The Blair Bill: A Step Toward National ized Schools -- Hayes and Albion Tourgee: The Take-over Plan -- Henry Blair, His Bill, His Idea -- Fraudulent Census of 1870 and 1880.

Radicals Claim South Too Poor to Fund Schools -- Curry Promotes Blair Bill -- More of Curry's Contradictions -- James Garfield and Albion Tourgee -- Counter-Attacks Against Blair -- "A Bill to Promote Mendicancy" -- Curry and Blair: The Peabody Board Counter-Attacks -- Tourgee's Insight -- Chapter 14. John Eaton's Bureau of Education: The New Psychology -- James Garfield Proposes Bureau of Education -- John Eaton, Second Commissioner -- John Eaton: His History -- John Eaton: "Memphis Post" Editor -- John Eaton: Bureau of Education Commissioner -- Eaton, Curry, and the Peabody Fund -- The Agriculture Department: Land Control as Mind Control -- The Morrill Act -- Fusing Agriculture and Bureau of Education with Morrill -- Agriculture Experiment Stations -- Darwin and Comparative Anatomy: The New Psychology -- Darwin and the New Psychology -- Origins of the New Scientific Psychology -- The New Psychology Becomes A Curriculum -- The Agriculture Department and Curriculum -- William Torrey Harris: The "St. Louis Hegelian" -- The St. Louis Hegelian -- Harris' Educational Career -- Harris and the Bureau of Education -- Chapter 15. The New Psychology Becomes a Curric ulum -- G. Stanley Hall -- The Child-Centered Movement -- John Dewey -- History of the Laboratory School -- Dewey's Own Views on Progressivism -- Dewey and the New History -- Progressivism As Totalitarian Model -- Progressivism Leads to Madness, No Past or Future -- Progressivism's Stamp on Education -- "The State" Imposes Values on Experience -- Dewey's Disillusionment -- Edward Thorndike -- Thorndike: Science as Religion -- Columbia -- Thorndike Teaches at Columbia -- Transfer of Faculties -- Chapter 16. Ambassador to Spain on the Edge of War -- Diplomacy, Free Trade vs. Protectionism -- The Other Life of a Diplomat -- Castelar and Canovas -- The Birth and Baptism of the New King.

Cuba, the Thorn That Leads to War.