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                    Lincoln’s Plan of Reconstruction


                                  _By_
                          CHARLES H. McCARTHY
                            =Ph.D.= (_Pa._)

[Illustration]

                                New York
                        McCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO.
                                  MCMI




                         _Copyright_, 1901 _by_
                        McCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO.


                        PUBLISHED NOVEMBER, 1901

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                                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

     <DW64> 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 <DW64> 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

    