Questions About John Brown

[L Verge]

Thank you both for joining in the discussion. I have often wondered if the April 11 speech from the White House formed the basis of what Lincoln intended. We know that one particular sentence was enough to seal his fate as far as JWB was concerned, and I suspect that Booth wasn't the only one in that crowd that objected to it. I wonder what Congress and the North in general thought of it. Do you think that Reconstruction would have been much better under the guidance of Lincoln?