Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860   By: James Gillespie Blaine (1830-1893)

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The chapter summaries in the Table of Contents are repeated in the text at the start of each chapter.

Footnotes are at the end of the chapter (or section of a Table of Congress), referenced by parenthesized numbers, e.g. (1).

The capitalization of hyphenated words is inconsistent, following the text, as is the use of the comma in lists.

The tables of the 39th and 40th Congresses are moved to the Appendices.

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TWENTY YEARS OF CONGRESS:

From Lincoln to Garfield

With a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860.

by

JAMES G. BLAINE.

Volume II.

Norwich, Conn.: The Henry Bill Publishing Company. 1886. Copyright, 1884, by James G. Blaine. All rights reserved.

Electrotyped and Printed By Rand, Avery, and Company, Boston, Mass

CONTENTS OF VOLUME II.

CHAPTER I.

ANDREW JOHNSON INSTALLED AS PRESIDENT. CABINET AND SENATORS WITNESSES TO THE CEREMONY. RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE NEW PRESIDENT DELICATE IN CHARACTER. REQUIRING THE HIGHEST ORDER OF STATESMANSHIP. THE QUESTION OF RECONSTRUCTION. ITS PECULIAR DIFFICULTIES. NEW AND PERPLEXING QUESTIONS. CHARACTER AND CAREER OF MR. JOHNSON. BORN IN NORTH CAROLINA. MIGRATES TO TENNESSEE. HIS RAPID PROMOTION IN THAT STATE. A TAILOR BY TRADE. WITHOUT EDUCATION TAUGHT TO READ AT FIFTEEN. MAYOR OF TOWN AT TWENTY TWO. IN THE LEGISLATURE AT TWENTY SEVEN. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTOR IN 1840 AT THIRTY TWO. IN CONGRESS AT THIRTY FIVE. GOVERNOR FROM 1853 TO 1857. HIS HOMESTEAD POLICY. NECESSARY ANTAGONISM WITH SLAVERY. HIS IDEAL OF A RURAL POPULATION. BOLDNESS OF HIS POLITICAL COURSE IN TENNESSEE. HIS LOYALTY TO THE UNION. SEPARATES FROM THE DEMOCRATIC CONSPIRATORS. HIS CAREER IN THE CIVIL WAR. APPOINTED MILITARY GOVERNOR OF TENNESSEE. HIS ABLE ADMINISTRATION OF THE OFFICE. FORESHADOWS A SEVERE POLICY AS PRESIDENT. CONTRAST WITH MR. LINCOLN. ANALYSIS OF JOHNSON'S POSITION. HIS BRIEF INAUGURAL ADDRESS. EFFECT PRODUCED BY IT. HIS ADDRESS TO AN ILLINOIS DELEGATION. SIGNIFICANT INDICATION OF A HARSH POLICY TOWARDS THE REBELS. PRESTON KING'S INFLUENCE. PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS TO A CHRISTIAN COMMISSION. TO LOYAL SOUTHERNERS. TO A PENNSYLVANIA DELEGATION. PRESIDENT'S TONE GROWS STERNER TOWARDS "TRAITORS." STRIKING CONVERSATION WITH SENATOR WADE. FUNERAL CEREMONIES OF THE LATE PRESIDENT. REMAINS CARRIED TO ILLINOIS. IMPRESSIVE SCENE IN BALTIMORE. IN PHILADELPHIA. BODY REPOSES IN INDEPENDENCE HALL. CONTRAST WITH FOUR YEARS BEFORE. UNPARALLELED DISPLAY OF FEELING IN NEW YORK. ORATION BY GEORGE BANCROFT. ELEGIAC ODE BY WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT. INTERMENT IN ILLINOIS. CEREMONIES COMPARED WITH THOSE OF ROYALTY. PROFOUND FEELING THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY. PUBLIC MANIFESTATION OF MOURNING.

CHAPTER II.