Carl Schurz to Andrew Johnson, August 29, 1865. Advice, 106–15.
Christopher Memminger to Andrew Johnson, September 4, 1865. PAJ, vol. 9, 22–25.
Thaddeus Stevens: Speech at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, September 6, 1865. SPTS, vol. 2, 12–25.
Georges Clemenceau to Le Temps, September 28, 1865. Georges Clemenceau, American Reconstruction 1865–1870, and the Impeachment of President Johnson, ed. Fernand Baldensperger, translated by Margaret MacVeagh (New York: The Dial Press, 1928), 35–42. Copyright © 1928 by The Dial Press, Inc.
Andrew Johnson: Interview with George L. Stearns, October 3, 1865. PAJ, vol. 9, 178–81.
Andrew Johnson: Speech to the 1st U.S. Colored Infantry, Washington, DC, October 10, 1865. PAJ, vol. 9, 219–23.
Sarah Whittlesey to Andrew Johnson, October 12, 1865. PAJ, vol. 9, 232–34.
Edisto Island Freedmen to Andrew Johnson, October 28, 1865. PAJ, vol. 9, 296–97.
J. A. Williamson to Nathan A. M. Dudley, October 30, 1865. Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861–1867. Series 3, Volume 1: Land and Labor, 1865, ed. Steve Hahn, Steven F. Miller, Susan E. O’Donovan, John C. Rodrigue, and Leslie S. Rowland (Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2008), 833–34. Copyright © 2008 by The University of North Carolina Press. Reprinted with permission of The University of North Carolina Press, www.uncpress.unc.edu.
Address of the Colored State Convention to the People of South Carolina, November 24, 1865. Proceedings of the Colored People’s Convention of the State of South Carolina, held in Zion Church, Charleston, November, 1865 (Charleston: South Carolina Leader Office, 1865), 23–26.
Andrew J. Hamilton to Andrew Johnson, November 27, 1865. PAJ, vol. 9, 436–39.
Sidney Andrews: from The South Since the War. Sidney Andrews, The South Since the War: as shown by fourteen weeks of travel and observation in Georgia and the Carolinas (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866), 383–400.
Carl Schurz: from Report on the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana, December 18, 1865. Senate Executive Document No. 2, 39th Congress, 1st Session (Washington, DC: 1866), 16–17, 41–42, 45–46.
Ulysses S. Grant to Andrew Johnson, December 18, 1865. Advice, 212–14.
Lewis Hayden: from Caste among Masons. Lewis Hayden, Caste among Masons: Address before Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the State of Massachusetts, at the Festival of St. John the Evangelist, December 27, 1865 (Boston: Edward S. Coombs & Company, 1866), 7–10.
Harriet Jacobs to The Freedman, January 9 and 19, 1866. The Harriet Jacobs Family Papers, vol. II, ed. Jean Fagan Yellin (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2008), 655–57. Copyright © 2008 Jean Fagan Yellin. Used by permission of the publisher. Reprinted with permission of The University of North Carolina Press, www.uncpress.unc.edu.
Marcus S. Hopkins to James Johnson, January 15, 1866. Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861–1867. Series II: The Black Military Experience, ed. Ira Berlin (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982), 800–801. Copyright © 2010 by Cambridge University Press. Reprinted with permission of Cambridge University Press.
Andrew Johnson: Exchange with Frederick Douglass, February 7, 1866; Response of Colored Delegation to President Johnson, February 7, 1866. PAJ, vol. 10, 41–48, 53–54.
Joseph S. Fullerton to Andrew Johnson, February 9, 1866. PAJ, vol. 10, 64–69.
Andrew Johnson: Veto of the Freedmen’s Bureau Bill, February 19, 1866. PAJ, vol. 10, 120–27.
Andrew Johnson: Speech in Washington, DC, February 22, 1866. PAJ, vol. 10, 145–57.
Andrew Johnson: Veto of the Civil Rights Bill, March 27, 1866. Richardson, vol. VI, 405–13.
CONGRESSIONAL RECONSTRUCTION, 1866–1869
Maria F. Chandler to Thaddeus Stephens, April 1, 1866. SPTS, vol. 2, 116–17.
Harper’s Weekly: Radicalism and Conservatism. Harper’s Weekly, April 21, 1866.
Thaddeus Stevens: Speech in Congress on the Fourteenth Amendment, Washington, DC, May 8, 1866. SPTS, vol. 2, 131–36.
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper: Speech at the National Woman’s Rights Convention, New York City, May 10, 1866. Proceedings of the eleventh National Woman’s Rights Convention, held at the Church of the Puritans, New York, May 10, 1866 (New York: Robert J. Johnston, 1866), 45–48.
George Stoneman to Ulysses S. Grant, May 12, 1866. House Executive Documents, No. 122, 39th Congress, 1st Session, 1–3.
The New York Times: An Hour With Gen. Grant. The New York Times, May 24, 1866.
Elihu B. Washburne to Thaddeus Stevens, May 24, 1866. SPTS, vol. 2, 150–51.
Cynthia Townsend: Testimony to House Select Committee, Memphis, Tennessee, May 30, 1866. House Report No. 101, 39th Congress, 1st Session (Washington, DC: 1866), 162–64.
Joint Resolution Proposing the Fourteenth Amendment, June 13, 1866. The Statutes at Large, Treaties, and Proclamations, of the United States of America from December, 1865, to March, 1867, ed. George P. Sanger (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1868), 358–59.
Oliver P. Morton: from Speech at Indianapolis, June 20, 1866. Speech of Gov. Oliver P. Morton: delivered at Masonic Hall, Tuesday evening, June 20, 1866 (Indianapolis, IN: 1866), 1–3, 7–8.
Philip H. Sheridan to Ulysses S. Grant, August 1 and 2, 1866. House Executive Documents, No. 68, 39th Congress, 2nd Session, 9, 11.
Harper’s Weekly: The Massacre in New Orleans. Harper’s Weekly, August 18, 1866.
Andrew Johnson: Speech at St. Louis, September 8, 1866. PAJ, vol. 11, 192–201.
Thaddeus Stevens: Speech at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, September 27, 1866. SPTS, vol. 2, 196–201.
Frederick Douglass: Reconstruction. The Atlantic Monthly, December 1866.
Thaddeus Stevens: Speech in Congress on Reconstruction, Washington, DC, January 3, 1867. SPTS, vol. 2, 211–21.
Mobile Daily Advertiser and Register: No Amendment—Stand Firm. Mobile Daily Advertiser and Register, January 9, 1867.
Albion W. Tourgée: To the Voters of Guilford, October 21, 1867. Tourgée, 25–27.
Harper’s Weekly: Impeachment. Harper’s Weekly, December 14, 1867.
Albion W. Tourgée: The Reaction. National Anti-Slavery Standard, January 4, 1868.
New-York Tribune: The President Must Be Impeached. New-York Tribune, February 24, 1868.
Thaddeus Stevens: Speech in Congress on Impeachment, Washington, DC, February 24, 1868. SPTS, vol. 2, 352–58.
Bossier Banner: White Men to the Rescue! Bossier Banner (Bellevue, LA), March 28, 1868.
The Nation: The Result of the Trial. The Nation, May 21, 1868.
Frank P. Blair to James O. Broadhead, June 30, 1868. Edward McPherson, The Political History of the United States of America During the Period of Reconstruction (Washington, DC: Philp & Solomons, 1871), 380–81.
Frederick Douglass: The Work Before Us. The Independent, August 27, 1868.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Gerrit Smith on Petitions. The Revolution, January 14, 1869.
Joint Resolution Proposing the Fifteenth Amendment, February 27, 1869. The Statutes at Large, Treaties, and Proclamations, of the United States of America from December 1867 to March 1869, ed. George P. Sanger (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1869), 346.
“LET US HAVE PEACE,” 1869–1873
Ulysses S. Grant: First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1869. Richardson, vol. VII, 6–8.
Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony: Exchange on Suffrage, May 12, 1869. Remarks by Douglass: New York World, May 13, 1869; remarks by Anthony: The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, Volume II: Against an Aristocracy of Sex, 1866 to 1873, ed. Ann D. Gordon (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2000), 238–41. Copyright © 2000 by Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Reprinted with permission of Rutgers University Press.
Mark Twain: Only a Nigger. The Buffalo Express, August 26, 1869.
Georges Clemenceau to Le Temps, November 3, 1869. Georges Clemence
au, American Reconstruction 1865–1870, and the Impeachment of President Johnson, ed. Fernand Baldensperger, translated by Margaret MacVeagh (New York: The Dial Press, 1928), 297–99. Copyright © 1928 by The Dial Press, Inc.
The New York Times: Reconstruction Nationalized. The New York Times, February 21, 1870.
William W. Holden to Ulysses S. Grant, March 10, 1870. Senate Executive Documents, No. 16, Pt. 2, 41st Congress, 3rd Session (Washington, DC: 1871), 41.
Ulysses S. Grant: Message to Congress, March 30, 1870. Richardson, vol. VII, 55–56.
Albion W. Tourgée to Joseph C. Abbott, May 24, 1870. Tourgée, 47–51.
Robert K. Scott to Ulysses S. Grant, October 22, 1870. PUSG, vol. 20, 249–50.
Horace Greeley and Robert Brown Elliott: Exchange on Amnesty, March 16–17, 1871. New-York Tribune, March 16 and 21, 1871.
Joseph H. Rainey: Speech in Congress on the Enforcement Bill, Washington, DC, April 1, 1871. Congressional Globe, 42nd Congress, 1st Session, 393–95.
James A. Garfield: from Speech in Congress on the Enforcement Bill, Washington, DC, April 4, 1871. Congressional Globe Appendix, 42nd Congress, 1st Session, 149, 153, 154–55.
Maria Carter: Testimony to the Joint Select Committee, Atlanta, Georgia, October 21, 1871. Testimony taken by the Joint Select Committee to inquire into the condition of affairs in the late insurrectionary states, Georgia, volume I (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1872), 411–14.
Horace Greeley: Reply to Committee of the Liberal Republican Convention, May 20, 1872. Proceedings of the Liberal Republican Convention, in Cincinnati, May 1st, 2d and 3d, 1872 (New York: Baker & Godwin, Printers, 1872), 38–40.
Frederick Douglass: Speech in New York City, September 25, 1872. The New York Times, September 26, 1872.
James S. Pike: South Carolina Prostrate. New-York Tribune, March 29, 1873.
Ulysses S. Grant: Second Inaugural Address, Washington, DC, March 4, 1873. Richardson, vol. VII, 221–23.
THE END OF RECONSTRUCTION, 1873–1877
Levi Nelson and Benjamin Brim: Testimony in the Colfax Massacre Trial, New Orleans, February 27 and March 3, 1874. New Orleans Republican, February 28, 1874 (Nelson testimony) and March 4, 1874 (Brim testimony).
Robert Brown Elliott: Speech in Congress on the Civil Rights Bill, Washington, DC, January 6, 1874. Congressional Record, 43rd Congress, 1st Session, 407–10.
New York Herald: General Grant’s New Departure. New York Herald, January 20, 1874.
Richard Harvey Cain: Speech in Congress on the Civil Rights Bill, Washington, DC, January 24, 1874. Congressional Record, 43rd Congress, 1st Session, 901–3.
James T. Rapier: Speech in Congress on the Civil Rights Bill, Washington, DC, June 9, 1874. Congressional Record, 43rd Congress, 1st Session, 4782–86.
William Lloyd Garrison to the Boston Journal, September 3, 1874. The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, Volume VI: To Rouse the Slumbering Land, 1868–1879, ed. Walter M. Merrill and Louis Ruchames (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1981), 345–350. Copyright © 1981 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Reprinted with permission.
Eugene Lawrence to Harper’s Weekly. Harper’s Weekly, October 31, 1874.
Isaac Loveless to Ulysses S. Grant, November 9, 1874. PUSG, vol. 25, 192–93.
Ulysses S. Grant: from Annual Message to Congress, December 7, 1874. Richardson, vol. VII, 296–99.
Philip H. Sheridan to William W. Belknap, January 4 and 5, 1875. The American Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1874 (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1875), 498–99.
Carl Schurz: from Speech in the Senate on Louisiana, Washington, DC, January 11, 1875. Congressional Record, 43rd Congress, 2nd Session, 366–67, 369–70.
William Lloyd Garrison to the Boston Journal, January 12, 1875. The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, Volume VI: To Rouse the Slumbering Land, 1868–1879, ed. Walter M. Merrill and Louis Ruchames (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1981), 360–64. Copyright © 1981 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Reprinted with permission.
Ulysses S. Grant: Message to the Senate on Louisiana, January 13, 1875. Richardson, vol. VII, 305–14.
John R. Lynch: from Speech in Congress on the Civil Rights Bill, Washington, DC, February 3, 1875. Congressional Record, 43rd Congress, 2nd Session, 944–45, 947.
Thomas Whitehead: from Speech in Congress on the Civil Rights Bill, Washington, DC, February 3, 1875. Congressional Record, 43rd Congress, 2nd Session, 952–55.
Charles A. Eldredge: Speech in Congress on the Civil Rights Bill, Washington, DC, February 3, 1875. Congressional Record, 43rd Congress, 2nd Session, 982–85.
James A. Garfield: from Speech in Congress on the Civil Rights Bill, Washington, DC, February 4, 1875. Congressional Record, 43rd Congress, 2nd Session, 1004, 1005.
Hinds County Gazette: How to Meet the Case. Hinds County Gazette (Raymond, MS), August 4, 1875.
Ulysses S. Grant to Edwards Pierrepont, September 13, 1875. PUSG, vol. 26, 312–13.
Edwards Pierrepont to Adelbert Ames, September 14, 1875. Appleton’s Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1875 (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1876), 516.
Sarah A. Dickey to Ulysses S. Grant, September 23, 1875. PUSG, vol. 26, 298.
Margaret Ann Caldwell: Testimony to the Select Senate Committee, June 20, 1876. Mississippi in 1875: Report of the Select Committee to inquire into the Mississippi Election of 1875, with the testimony and documentary evidence, vol. I (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1876), 435–40.
Albion W. Tourgée: Root, Hog, or Die, c. 1876. Tourgée, 58–62.
John R. Lynch: Speech in Congress, Washington, DC, February 10, 1876. Congressional Record, 44th Congress, 1st Session, 1005–7.
Ulysses S. Grant to Daniel H. Chamberlain, July 26, 1876. PUSG, vol. 27, 199–200.
The Nation: The South in the Canvass. The Nation, July 27, 1876.
Robert G. Ingersoll: from Speech in Indianapolis, September 21, 1876. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, volume IX (New York: The Dresden Publishing Co., 1908), 157–64, 179–82.
David Brundage to Ulysses S. Grant, October 14, 1876. PUSG, vol. 27, 214–15.
Rutherford B. Hayes: Diary, November 12, 1876. Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Nineteenth President of the United States, volume III, ed. Charles Richard Williams (Columbus: The Ohio State Archæological and Historical Society, 1924), 377–78. Copyright 1924 by Ohio State Archæological and Historical Society.
Abram Hewitt: Memorandum of Conversation with Ulysses S. Grant, December 3, 1876. PUSG, vol. 28, 78–81.
Chicago Tribune: The Court of Arbitration. Chicago Tribune, January 21, 1877.
St. Louis Globe Democrat: The Warning. St. Louis Globe Democrat, March 31, 1877.
The Nation: The Political South Hereafter. The Nation, April 5, 1877.
CODA, 1879
John Russell Young: from Around the World With General Grant. John Russell Young, Around the World With General Grant: A Narrative of the Visit of General U.S. Grant, Ex-President of the United States, to various Countries in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in 1877, 1878, 1879, to which are added certain conversations with General Grant on questions connected with American politics and history, volume II (New York: Subscription Book Department, The American News Company, 1879), 359–63.
Joseph H. Rainey: from Remarks in Congress on South Carolina Elections, Washington, DC, March 3, 1879. Appendix to the Congressional Record, 45th Congress, 3rd Session, 267.
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Notes
In the notes below, the reference numbers denote page and line of the hardcover edition of this volume (the line count includes headings, but not rule lines). No note is made for material included in the eleventh edition of Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary. Biblical references are keyed to the King James Version. Quotations from Shakespeare are keyed to The Riverside Shakespeare, ed. G. Blakemore Evans (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1974). Footnotes and bracketed editorial notes within the text were in the originals. For further historical and biographical background, and references to other studies, see Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877, Updated Edition (New York: Harper Collins Publishers Inc., 2014); Brooks D. Simpson, The Reconstruction Presidents (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998); Reconstruction: A Historical Encyclopedia of the American Mosaic, ed. Richard Zuczek (Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood, 2016); and Richard White, The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States During Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865–1896 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017).
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