Author: David Miller DeWitt

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-02-14

Total Pages: 662

ISBN-13: 9780656512843

Excerpt from The Impeachment and Trial of Andrew Johnson, Seventeenth: President of the United States History The sudden collapse of the rebellion so soon after the second inauguration and the dispersion Of the Congress, left Lincoln, for the moment, absolute master of the whole field; and, during the few weeks he had yet to live, he made no uncertain record of what he meant to do. On the eleventh of April, 1865, in his last speech to the people of 'washington he suspended his congratulations on the surrender of Lee to commend his Louisiana experiment, announce the unanimity of his Cabinet on his reconstruction policy and express a modest hope that suffrage might be granted to the intelligent, and the Union soldiers, among the negroes. Once more, on the fourteenth, at the last meeting of his Cabinet, he directed the extension of his plan so as to take in the recovered state of North Carolina, and, with words Of charity even for the chiefs Of the over thrown Confederacy on his lips, he went forth unwit tingly to his death. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.