Historical Speech: Speech of Hon. James R. Doolittle, of Wisconsin, on the Lincoln-Johnson Policy of Restoration...

Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction Plan

Historical Speech: Speech of Hon. James R. Doolittle, of Wisconsin, on the Lincoln-Johnson Policy of Restoration...

01/17/1866

Historical Speech

The Power Library presents an 1866 historical speech, given by James R. Doolittle to the United States Senate, that provides Doolittle's perspective on President Abraham Lincoln and President Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction plans. Doolittle says, "I put aside, therefore, as not worthy of consideration, the suggestions sometimes made that Mr. Johnson, by adhering to this policy of reconstruction, is ready to betray the Union cause or the great measures of the Union party."

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