Conclusion: By the mid-1870s even some radical Republicans had wearied of white resistance to blacks' equality and, swayed by the idea that the interracial Republican governments in southern states were ineffective and corrupt, they began to retreat from Reconstruction.Evidence: "We protest against any code of black laws the Legislature of this State may enact, and pray to be governed by the same laws that control other men. The right to assemble in peaceful convention, to discuss the political questions of the day; the right to enter upon all the avenues of agriculture, commerce, trade; to amass wealth by thrift and industry; the right to develop our whole being by all the appliances that belong to civilized society, cannot be questioned by any class of intelligent legislators."—Source 14.1: Colored People's Convention of South Carolina, Memorial to Congress

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