;Cohee : ( U . S . ) originally ( mid-18th century ) a Scots-Irish settler into the Virginia Piedmont; later ( late 18th century ) a term for backwoodsman; hick, or most severely " poor white trash ", especially on the frontier or in the Appalachian area; still later ( post Civil War ) a self-referential indicating an independent backwoods small farmer in the West Virginia / Carolina / Tennessee / Kentucky area.
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During the American Civil War, Wade was highly critical of President Abraham Lincoln; in a September 1861 letter, he privately wrote that Lincoln's views on slavery " could only come of one born of poor white trash and educated in a slave State . " He was especially angry when Lincoln was slow to recruit African-Americans into the armies, and actively advocated for the bill that abolished slavery and had a direct hand in the passing of the Homestead Act of 1862 and the Morrill Land-Grant Act of 1862.
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Scholars argue that Lee's approach to class and race was more complex " than ascribing racial prejudice primarily to'poor white trash'. . . Lee demonstrates how issues of gender and class intensify prejudice, silence the voices that might challenge the existing order, and greatly complicate many Americans'conception of the causes of racism and segregation . " Lee's use of the middle-class narrative voice is a literary device that allows an intimacy with the reader, regardless of class or cultural background, and fosters a sense of nostalgia.
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I vetoed the Reconstruction acts; I vetoed the Freedmen's Bureau; I vetoed civil liberty; I vetoed Stanton . . . I hugged traitors to my bosom; I pardoned them by regiments & brigades . . . I smiled upon the Ku-Klux . . . I have made the name of office-holder equivalent to that of rogue; born & reared ` poor white trash,'I have clung to my native instincts, & done every small mean thing my eager hands could find to do . . . . My work is done; I die content ."
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