By Hans Louis Trefousse
In Impeachment of a President, Hans L. Trefousse makes a speciality of the explanations of the failure to convict, the results of the acquittal, and the connection of the impeachment to the unwell good fortune of Reconstruction. Drawing on a wealth of fabric, a few just recently made to be had, Professor Trefousse sheds new gentle at the President's pursuits and personality.
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Stephens, was elected United States senator; in Mississippi another Confederate general, Benjamin G. Humphreys, occupied the governor’s chair; and in New Orleans the active former Confederate John T. Monroe was elected mayor. Where there were several factions seeking to control a Southern state, as in Florida, the more conservative groups were certain of presidential support. They reciprocated by expressions of undying gratitudeb8 T h e n e teffect of Johnson’s Southern policy was the continued subordination of the blacks to their formermasters.
T h e secessionists. Who are the true Pariahs . . T h e loyal people of the South. ”lG While the disappointed loyalist was exaggerating, the trends she described were unmistakable. What Johnson’s policy meant for thefreedmen was a t best second-class citizenshipandat worst intimidation,terror, and murder. Theconservative governments and black codes were bad enough; in addition, the newspapers and correspondence of leading radicals were full of reports of individual outrages. ” In Louisiana there were reports of fieldhands whipped and physically assaulted by their employers; in Arkansas one of Thaddeus Stevens’ confidants reported a regular massacre of freedmen; in Kentucky,Joseph 34 The Widening Breach Holt was informed thatblack women were being ruthlessly beaten by the police.
A. P. Nicholson, one of the state’s leading prewar Democrats whom Johnson had pardoned, thanked him profusely and assured him that at no time had the President so enjoyed the confidence of the people as since his policy had d e v e l ~ p e d . ~ Tsuperintendent he of the Virginia,9: Tennessee Railroad, a convinced secessionist, took pride in the fact that he had saved Johnson from a lynching in 1861. l* And in Raleigh, North Carolina, the Daily Se72lineZ rebuked readerswho were suggesting GeneralGrant for President.