A compromise of principle
Congressional Republicans and Reconstruction, 1863-1869.
[1st ed.]
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Word Count
123,250 words, Guess
Page Count
493 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL5049598M
- ISBN-100393055248
- OCLC Control Number940640
- OCLC Control Numbercompromiseofprin00mich
- Library of Congress Control Number74010645
and 2 more
- Goodreads421432
- LibraryThing2569006
Classifications
- DDC973.8/1
- LCCE668 .B46
Description
Publisher description: After the Civil War the president and the Congress had a unique opportunity to restore the Union on the egalitarian principles of the American Revolution. But from the beginning there was little agreement on how to bind up the nation's wounds and insure the rights of blacks after emanicpation. Underlying the dispute was the struggle within the Republican party that pitted Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens against their less radical Republican colleagues. By the end of the war, most Republicans endorsed black suffrage but Johnson's refusal to require it of southerners and the defeat of equal-suffrage proposals in several northern states led nonradicals to retreat from their advanced position. This new study of the struggle behind the development of the Republican Reconstruction policy demonstrates that Republican conservatives and moderates, not radicals, shaped Reconstruction policy throughout the Johnson administration.
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