A House-Divided

[Wild Bill]

For not having much clout as you assert, the secessionists sure did bust up the country.

We have spoken about the Republicans and the Constitution before, and how the Radicals wanted to junk it and write another until Major William Whiting of the Adjutant General's office convinced everyone that amendments were all that were necessary to straighten everything out (Harold Hyman, A More Perfect Union has a couple of chapters on this).

BTW the Rads also wanted to close down West Point for having graduated all those Rebel generals that were so hard to beat during the war.