1865-1877. The reconstruction periodDodd, Mead & Company, 1913 - United States |
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¹ VII accepted administration Andrew Johnson appointed author's recollections ballot bill Boutwell cabinet candidate carpet-bag Century Magazine Charles Francis Adams chief citizens civil colored committee Congress conservative constitutional convention course December Democratic election Electoral Commission electoral count electoral votes ex-Confederate Executive favor February Florida friends governor Greeley Harper's Hayes held hence honest honor impeachment January Justice leaders legislature Lincoln Louisiana majority March Massachusetts McCulloch ment military N. Y. Nation negro newspapers North Northern November Ohio once Orleans passed political polls present President Johnson Presidential race re-election reconstruction reform Republican party resignation returning board Rhodes Secretary Senate session Seward South Carolina Southern Stanton stood suffrage Sumner Supreme Court term Thaddeus Stevens Tilden tion took Treasury treaty Treaty of Washington tribunal Union United veto Vice-President voters Washington Welles's Diary Whiskey Ring White House whole XIVth Amendment York
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Page 287 - and lesser choice dignitaries of the nation were among the invited guests in a canvas pavilion at Lexington, of which few comparatively among the shivering sightseers got even a good glimpse, in the elbowing multitude of hungry and thirsty gazers. Judges and other citizens of 1 " One if by land and two if by sea, And I on the opposite shore will be.
Page 85 - given the pertinent advice to "agree with thine adversary quickly whilst thou art in the way with him." Tennessee had ratified just before her readmission, as I have stated.
Page 240 - are a long dismal tale of declining markets, exhaustion of capital, a lowering in value of all kinds of property including real estate, constant bankruptcies, close economy in business and grinding frugality in living, idle mills, furnaces and
Page 106 - impeachment if there is any wish to press it. I am tired of hearing allusions to impeachment. God Almighty knows I will not turn aside from my public duties to attend to these contemptible assaults which are got up to embarrass the administration.
Page 240 - former profit-earning iron mills reduced to the value of a scrap heap, laborers out of employment, reductions of wages, strikes and lockouts, the great railroad riots of 1877, suffering of the unemployed, depression and despair.
Page 278 - country, to return to the original principles of their fathers, with the hopeful prospect of a higher and brighter career in the future than any heretofore achieved in the past. On such return depends, in my judgment, not only the liberties of the white and colored races of this continent but the best hopes of mankind.
Page 24 - I had daily intercourse with him, frequently at night, and I never saw him under the influence of liquor. I have no hesitation in saying that, whatever may have been his faults, intemperance was not among them.
Page 148 - He was brave, honest, truthful. He never shrank from danger, disregarded an engagement, or was unfaithful to his pledges. His devotion to the Union was a passion. There was no sacrifice he would not make for it, no peril he would not encounter in its
Page 285 - I would as soon think St. Paul had got some of the thirty pieces of silver," was the comment, of Judge Hoar, who had a keen insight into character and saw much of Grant during these years. VII. Rhodes, 188.
Page 332 - no vote objected to shall be counted except by the concurrent votes of the two Houses.