Historical Newspaper: The President's Theory.
Subject
Johnson's Presidency (1865 to mid-1867 before impeachment
Title
Historical Newspaper: The President's Theory.
Date
7/20/1865
Type
Historical Newspaper
Description
Note: 1st column, top.
Chronicling America features an 1865 Rutland Weekly Herald newspaper article, written by an unknown author, that provides President Andrew Johnson's theory about his Reconstruction policy and black suffrage as well as an account in support of Johnson's insistence that suffrage should be left up to the states to determine. According to the account, Johnson "believes that neither himself nor Congress has any constitutional right to create a voter; but that power the people of the several states composing the Federal Union have rightfully exercised from the origin of the government to the present time."
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Chronicling America features an 1865 Rutland Weekly Herald newspaper article, written by an unknown author, that provides President Andrew Johnson's theory about his Reconstruction policy and black suffrage as well as an account in support of Johnson's insistence that suffrage should be left up to the states to determine. According to the account, Johnson "believes that neither himself nor Congress has any constitutional right to create a voter; but that power the people of the several states composing the Federal Union have rightfully exercised from the origin of the government to the present time."
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Publisher
Library of Congress - Chronicling America (The Rutland Weekly Herald, VT)
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“Historical Newspaper: The President's Theory.,” Project Reconstruction, accessed April 28, 2024, https://projectreconstructionus.com/items/show/633.