 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1868 - 836 pages
...that question to their constituents." Mr. Garfield, of Ohio, said : " Mr. Speaker, this bill starts out by laying its hands on the rebel governments and...utterly and absolutely, the work of reconstruction. Gentlemen here, when they have the power of a thunderbolt in their hands, are afraid of themselves... | |
 | Henry Wilson - Reconstruction - 1868 - 486 pages
...to a direct vote upon the substitute proposed by the Senate." Mr. Garfield said, " this bill starts out by laying its hands on the rebel governments and...utterly and absolutely, the work of reconstruction. Gentlemen here, when they have the power of a thunderbolt in their hands, are afraid of themselves... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1869 - 826 pages
...that question to their constituents." Mr. Garfield, of Ohio, said : " Mr. Speaker, this bill starts out by laying its hands on the rebel governments and...utterly and absolutely, the work of reconstruction. Gentlemen here, when they have the power of a thunderbolt in their hands, are afrnid of themselves... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1869 - 832 pages
...that question to their constituents." Mr. Garfield, of Ohio, said : " Mr. Speaker, this bill starts out by laying its hands on the rebel governments and...utterly and absolutely, the work of reconstruction. Gentlemen here, when they have the power of a thunderbolt in their hands, are afraid of themselves... | |
 | Henry Wilson - Antislavery movements - 1877 - 814 pages
...House, " starts out by laying its hands on the Rebel gov.ernments and taking the very breath of fife out of them. In the next place it puts the bayonet...Rebel in the South. In the next place it leaves in the hand of Congress utterly and absolutely the work of reconstruction." But, as the bill was confessedly... | |
 | Hilary Abner Herbert - Reconstruction - 1890 - 486 pages
...governments and taking the very breath of life out of them ; in the next place it puts the bayone£ at the breast of every rebel in the South ; in the...utterly and absolutely the work of reconstruction." In other words, Mr. Garfield meant that if the results were not satisfactory, Congress might, at will,... | |
 | Hilary Abner Herbert - Antislavery movements - 1912 - 276 pages
...James A. Garfield, who was, at a later date, to become generous and conservative, said exultingly: "This bill sets out by laying its hands on the rebel...utterly and absolutely the work of Reconstruction." And Congress did its work. Lincoln was in his grave, and Johnson, even with his vetoes, was powerless.... | |
 | Hilary Abner Herbert - Antislavery movements - 1912 - 280 pages
...governments and taking the very breath of life out of them; in the next place, it puts the bayonet at the 219 breast of every rebel in the South; in the next place,...utterly and absolutely the work of Reconstruction." And Congress did its work. Lincoln was in his grave, and Johnson, even with his vetoes, was powerless.... | |
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Mr. Garfield, of Ohio, said : " Mr. Speaker, this bill starts out by laying its hands on the rebel governments and taking the very breath of life out of them. In the next place it puts the bayonet at the breast of every rebel in the South. In the next... 