Historical Newspaper: "The Rock Island and Moline Union..."
Subject
Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction Plan
Title
Historical Newspaper: "The Rock Island and Moline Union..."
Date
12/6/1867
Type
Historical Newspaper
Description
Note: 2nd column, center.
Chronicling America features an 1867 Evening Argus newspaper article, written by an unknown author, that provides an account of President Andrew Johnson being accused by radicals of carrying out the same plan as President Abraham Lincoln had intended to before his assassination. According to the account, the testimony "convicts the radical leaders and their newspapers of falsehood and of attempting to force President Johnson to abandom Lincoln's policy and adopt a harsher one."
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Chronicling America features an 1867 Evening Argus newspaper article, written by an unknown author, that provides an account of President Andrew Johnson being accused by radicals of carrying out the same plan as President Abraham Lincoln had intended to before his assassination. According to the account, the testimony "convicts the radical leaders and their newspapers of falsehood and of attempting to force President Johnson to abandom Lincoln's policy and adopt a harsher one."
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Publisher
Library of Congress - Chronicling America (The Evening Argus, IL)
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“Historical Newspaper: "The Rock Island and Moline Union...",” Project Reconstruction, accessed May 14, 2024, https://projectreconstructionus.com/items/show/444.