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Commentary: The Republicans scored victories across the country as this article
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THE POPULAR WILL
If the President is still of the opinion which Mr. Browning reports, that
the people have not pronounced upon the Constitutional Amendment, he will never discover
it. From Maine to Iowa this was the one issue. Every Union orator showed by the record
that the Presidents original theory of restoration upon which he acted was that upon
which Congress insists today; that when he repudiated that principle he stigmatized his
own action, deserted the party which elected him, and left himself in the hands of
Copperheads and late rebels; that the conditions proposed by Congress were not only just
in themselves, but were essential to complete those upon which the President insisted, and
were necessary to the good faith of the nation; that to stop where the President stopped,
and to approve the extraordinary doctrines which he announced, would be to make every
brave boy who died in battle a fool for his pains; to reduce the war to a ridiculous trial
of strength; to imperil the debt; to break faith with the freedmen; to leave every
question open, and to invite self-contempt and the derision of mankind.
This was the ground upon
which the Union campaign was fought, and a more intelligent, sober, and vigorous political
contest was never known. The result justifies the faith of all who sincerely believe in
popular government, because it is precisely upon such points of practical political wisdom
that confusion of the public mind is to be expected. The Union line dresses itself
unbroken from the Penobscot to the Mississippi. Congress is fully sustained, and the
Presidents policy has been solemnly rebuked.
Articles Related to the Initial Impeachment
Discussions:
The President Judged by Himself
August 25, 1866, page 530
Reconstruction and How
it Works (cartoon)
September 1, 1866, pages 552-553
Which Is The More
Illegal (cartoon)
September 8, 1866, page 569
The New Orleans Report
October 20, 1866, page 658
The New Orleans Massacre
IMarch 30, 1867, page 202
Text from Illustration of Andys Trip
October 27, 1866, pages 680-681
The Great Campaign of
66
September 29, 1866, page 610
What Next?
October 27, 1866, page 674
King Andy (cartoon)
November 3, 1866 page 696
Shall the President be
Impeached?
November 3, 1866, page 690
The Popular Will
November 24, 1866, page 738
Andy Makes a Call on
Uncle Sam, Who Rises to the Occasion (cartoon)
December 1, 1866, page 768
Impeachment and General
Butler
December 15, 1866, page 786
Congress
December 22, 1866, page 803
What Next?
December 29, 1866, page 818
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