Incident at an Antique Store

[David Lockmiller]

(08-18-2014 03:16 PM)Wild Bill Wrote:  Although he has the advantage over Johnson as he was a Republican and much smarter, Lincoln was cruising for a collision with Congress on Reconstruction, too.

If I understand history correctly, Lincoln's war with the Radical Republicans over the policy of Reconstruction had already begun on July 4, 1864.

"On that same Fourth of July, the president pocket-vetoed the Wade-Davis bill on Reconstruction of the South and thus more or less threw down the gaunlet before the radical wing of his party."

Thus, wrote the 1992 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History, Mark E. Neely, Jr., in his book The Fate of Lberty, Oxford University Press, 1991, pages 91-92.