This movement was met on the other side by the assembly of a Republican soldier convention at Pittsburg on the 25th and 26th of September, for the purpose of upholding Congress in its fight with the Administration over the question of Reconstruction. The convention was presided over by General J. D. Cox, and a host of the most capable officers of the armies of the Union, lately disbanded, participated in its deliberations and resolves. They denounced the President's Reconstruction policy, pronounced their adherence to Congress, and declared for the adoption of the proposed Fourteenth Amendment as the indispensable measure for the re-establishment of peace, justice and union.
During the summer and autumn the orators and politicians of both parties pursued the canvass upon the basis of the doctrines put forth
The canvass of 1866.
On the 28th of August he started from Washington to go to Chicago to be present at the laying of the corner-stone of the Douglas monument. He
The "swing
around the
circle."
The President had on the 20th day of August, a week before setting out upon his tour, finally proclaimed the insurrection and Civil War at an
The President's final
proclamation declaring
the Civil War ended.
The October elections.