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Future Control of Congress

by John Adler, Publisher

A key difference between the Radicals and Conservatives related to whether or not the Freedmen should be given the right to vote. If they received it, they were expected to vote for Republicans (which they largely did after the passage of Radical Republican state laws and, later, the Fifteenth Amendment). A look at the statistics published in the editorial "The Trial of the Government" on May 26, 1866, shows why the struggle between President Johnson and Congress over the control of Reconstruction was, to some extent, about the future control of Congress. State White Citizens Freedmen South Carolina 291,000 411,000 Mississippi 353,000 436,000 Louisiana 357,000 350,000 Georgia 591,000 465,000 Alabama 596,000 437,000 Virginia 719,000 533,000 North Carolina 631,000 331,000


Thomas Nast illustrated this point well in his cartoon of April 9, 1870, when he showed the newly arrived black Senator Hiram Revels of Mississippi (as Othello) sitting in the chair occupied by Jefferson Davis before he became President of the Confederacy. Senator Charles Sumner, an arch-opponent of President Andrew Johnson, welcomed Senator Revels, along with Republican Senators Henry Wilson (MA), Oliver Morton (IN), and Carl Schurz (MO), while Jeff Davis as Iago skulked outside the door.

Other Articles in this Section:
Reconstruction: Radicalism versus Conservatism
The Tenure of Office Act
Personal Considerations Affecting the Vote to Impeach

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