Lincoln's Plan of Reconstruction

by Charles H. McCarthy

CONTENTS

	Page
Introduction	[xv]
I
TENNESSEE
Election and Policy of Lincoln	[1]
East Tennessee	[3]
Secession	[8]
Federal Victories	[10]
A Military Governor	[11]
Origin of Military Governors in the United States	[12]
Measures of Governor Johnson	[17]
Negro Troops	[20]
Nashville Convention of 1863	[21]
Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction	[23]
Steps to Restoration	[27]
Nashville Convention of 1865	[30]
Election of William G. Brownlow	[32]
Nomination of Lincoln and Johnson	[32]
Presidential Election in Tennessee	[34]
II
LOUISIANA
Popularity of Secession	[36]
Financial Embarrassment	[37]
Capture of New Orleans	[38]
Lincoln’s Advice	[38]
General Shepley appointed Military Governor	[39]
Election of Representatives to Congress	[45]
Division among Unionists	[47]
Military Operations	[49]
Lincoln Urges Reconstruction	[51]
Political Activity among Loyalists	[53]
Title of Louisiana Claimants	[58]
Opposition to General Banks	[61]
Plan of Reconstruction proposed	[66]
Election of 1864	[70]
Inauguration of Civil Government	[72]
Lincoln’s Letter on Negro Suffrage	[73]
Constitutional Convention	[75]
Congressional Election	[76]
III
ARKANSAS
Indifference to Secession	[77]
The Fall of Sumter	[78]
Seizure of Little Rock	[79]
Military Matters	[79]
Threat of Seceding from Secession	[82]
General Phelps appointed Military Governor	[82]
Enthusiasm of Unionists	[83]
Lincoln’s Interest in Arkansas	[83]
Inaugurating a Loyal Government	[84]
The Election of 1864	[90]
IV
VIRGINIA
Secession	[93]
Physical Features and Early Settlements	[94]
Society and Its Basis	[95]
The Counter-Revolution	[97]
Convention at Wheeling	[99]
Organizing a Union Government	[100]
Legislature of Restored Virginia	[103]
The State of Kanawha	[105]
Attorney-General Bates on Dismemberment	[105]
Making a New State	[107]
Compensated Emancipation	[108]
Formation of New State discussed in Congress	[110]
Cabinet on Dismemberment	[120]
Lincoln on Dismemberment	[124]
Webster’s Prediction	[126]
Inauguration of New State	[128]
Reorganizing the Restored State	[129]
Right of Commonwealth to Representation in Congress	[131]
Rupture between Civil and Military Authorities	[133]
The President Interposes	[135]
Congress Refuses to Admit a Senator-Elect	[138]
V
ANTI-SLAVERY LEGISLATION
Compensated Emancipation in Congress	[142]
Contrabands	[143]
The Military Power and Fugitive Slaves	[144]
Lincoln on Military Emancipation	[148]
Andrew Jackson and Nullification	[151]
Lincoln on Compensated Emancipation	[152]
Compensated Emancipation in Delaware	[155]
Abandoned Slaves	[160]
Border Policy Propounded	[163]
General Hunter and Military Emancipation	[168]
Slavery Prohibited in the Territories	[170]
Attitude of Border States on Slavery	[172]
Lincoln Resolves to Emancipate Slaves by Proclamation	[177]
VI
THEORIES AND PLANS OF RECONSTRUCTION
The Presidential Plan	[190]
Sumner’s Theory of State Suicide	[196]
“Conquered Province” Theory of Stevens	[211]
Theory of Northern Democrats	[217]
Crittenden Resolution	[220]
VII
RISE OF THE CONGRESSIONAL PLAN
Bill to Guarantee a Republican Form of Government	[224]
Henry Winter Davis on Reconstruction	[226]
House Debates on Bill of Wade and Davis	[236]
Pendleton’s Speech on Reconstruction	[257]
Provisions of Wade-Davis Bill	[262]
Senate Debate on Bill of Wade and Davis	[264]
President’s Pocket Veto	[273]
Proclamation concerning Reconstruction	[278]
Manifesto of Wade and Davis	[279]
VIII
AN ATTEMPT TO COMPROMISE
President ignores Controversy with Congress	[286]
Summary of Military and Naval Situation	[288]
Attempt to Revive the Pocketed Bill	[289]
House Debates on Ashley’s Reconstruction Bill	[291]
Defeat of Ashley’s Bill	[311]
IX
THE ELECTORAL VOTE OF LOUISIANA
Resolution excluding Electoral Votes of Rebellious States	[314]
Amendment of Senator Ten Eyck	[315]
Senate Debate on Ten Eyck’s Amendment	[316]
Defeat of the Amendment in favor of Louisiana	[334]
Senate Passes Joint Resolution	[338]
Counting the Electoral Vote	[339]
The President’s Message	[339]
X
SENATE DEBATE ON LOUISIANA
Congressmen from Louisiana at the National Capital	[341]
Proposal to Recognize Louisiana	[343]
Powell’s Speech opposing Recognition	[344]
Henderson’s Argument for Recognition	[348]
Howard’s Argument in Opposition	[358]
Reverdy Johnson’s Speech for Recognition	[370]
General Discussion on Louisiana	[374]
XI
INCIDENTS OF RECONSTRUCTION
The Thirteenth Amendment	[384]
The Freedmen’s Bureau	[385]
Volunteer Diplomats	[389]
The Hampton Roads Conference	[395]
Lincoln’s Letter to General Hurlbut	[401]
Lincoln’s Letter to General Canby	[402]
Lincoln’s Last Words on Reconstruction	[403]
XII
CULMINATION OF THE PRESIDENTIAL PLAN
Lincoln and the South	[407]
Inauguration of Andrew Johnson	[408]
Arkansas after the War	[409]
Condition of Tennessee	[412]
Louisiana	[417]
Reorganization of Virginia	[425]
The Wreck of the Confederacy	[431]
Andrew Johnson on Reconstruction in 1864	[438]
Johnson’s Speeches after Accession to the Presidency	[440]
Raising the Blockade	[444]
The Executive Department Recognizes Virginia	[445]
Restoration of North Carolina	[448]
The President Hesitates	[458]
Executive Policy in Mississippi	[460]
Restoration of Georgia	[465]
Texas	[466]
The Reconstruction Conventions	[468]
Temper of the South	[472]
Mississippi Legislation relative to Freedmen	[475]
Southern Reaction	[482]
The President’s Change of Opinion	[487]
Examination of Lincoln’s Plan	[491]
APPENDIX A
Thirty-Seventh Congress	[499]
APPENDIX B
Thirty-Eighth Congress	[502]