The beginning
of resistance in
Congress to the
President's plan.
The Wade-
Davis bill.
A brief analysis of this bill will show that Congress was nearer to some doctrine on the subject of Reconstruction than was the President.
Analysis of
this measure.
But he did not. He did not, it is true, veto the bill. He simply allowed the session to expire without signing it. This having happened
The President's
attitude toward
the bill.
The President's
proclamation
of July 8, 1864.
This was one of the boldest acts of Mr. Lincoln's career as President, and it is little wonder that men of so much intelligence, courage and
The Wade-Davis
protest against
the President's
proclamation.