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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), A noble life. (search)
olland's Life, etc., shows (page 476, et seq.), that when Lincoln killed, by pocketing it, a bill for the reconstruction of the Union, which Congress had passed, Ben Wade and Winter Davis, aided by Greeley, published in Greeley's Tribune of August 5th a bitter manifesto. It charged that the President, by this action, holds the els casting the vote of the State of Virginia in the electoral college, and similar farces were played in the case of others of the rebel States, just as foreseen by Wade and Henry Winter Davis. This accounts for the much boasted majority recorded by the electoral college in Lincoln's favor, and the small majority, as officially rees (pages 112 and 259) the reprobation of Lincoln by Thad. Stevens, The Great Commoner. Miss Ida Tarbell, in McClure's Magazine for 1899 (page 277), calls Sumner, Wade, Winter Davis and Chase malicious foes of Lincoln, on the authority of one of Lincoln's closest intimates, Leonard Swet, and in the same magazine for July, 1899 (p
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.52 (search)
olland's Life, etc., shows (page 476, et seq.), that when Lincoln killed, by pocketing it, a bill for the reconstruction of the Union, which Congress had passed, Ben Wade and Winter Davis, aided by Greeley, published in Greeley's Tribune of August 5th a bitter manifesto. It charged that the President, by this action, holds the els casting the vote of the State of Virginia in the electoral college, and similar farces were played in the case of others of the rebel States, just as foreseen by Wade and Henry Winter Davis. This accounts for the much boasted majority recorded by the electoral college in Lincoln's favor, and the small majority, as officially rees (pages 112 and 259) the reprobation of Lincoln by Thad. Stevens, The Great Commoner. Miss Ida Tarbell, in McClure's Magazine for 1899 (page 277), calls Sumner, Wade, Winter Davis and Chase malicious foes of Lincoln, on the authority of one of Lincoln's closest intimates, Leonard Swet, and in the same magazine for July, 1899 (p