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Description:Samuel Walker McCall (1851 – 1923) was a Republican lawyer, Massachusetts Governor, and author who wrote the biography "Thaddeus Stevens". Thaddeus Stevens (1792 – 1868) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania and one of the leaders of the Radical Republican faction of the Republican Party during the 1860s. A fierce opponent of slavery and discrimination against African-Americans, Stevens sought to secure their rights during Reconstruction, in opposition to President Andrew Johnson. As chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee during the American Civil War, he played a major part in the war's financing. Stevens hated slavery with an intensity which would be difficult to characterize. It was a passion, as seen in the several speeches made in this Congress, which compare favorably with the best literature of the anti-slavery crusade. But the great fact in the life of Stevens was his matchless leadership in dealing with the question of Reconstruction. Of this, McCall writes: "We of to-day also lose sight of many of the difficulties with which the problem was surrounded, and which have disappeared in the distance. The choice which Stevens and the statesmen associated with him were compelled to make did not lie between the course actually adopted and an ideal condition of things. In the light in which they acted, they were compelled to deal with as grave a national situation as ever existed. It was beyond the power of any surgery at once to deliver society, well and whole, from the condition in which its errors and crimes had placed it." The chapter devoted to Stevens's personal characteristics, particularly his wit and humor, is exceedingly readable. Those who knew him will recall other examples as good as those here given, for his humor was unfailing. McCall writes: "His wit was light, usually genial, and in quality like the autumn sunshine. It was also unfailing. When it suited his purpose, however, he could make it bitter, cynical and even brutal in tone." During a debate in the House a member who was speaking kept walking continually up and down the aisle, and back and forth across the area, under the excitement of his effort, as members are sometimes prone to do. After watching this pedestrian performance for some time Stevens checked it by calling out to the member by name, "Do you expect to get mileage for that speech?" Mr. Brooks, of New York, the Democratic leader, had made a most carefully prepared partisan speech which ransacked history, and Stevens was expected to reply. Stevens referred to the gentleman's "elaborate speech, so full of literary and historical allusions which in superficial scholars might look like pedantry, but in the learned gentleman are but the natural and graceful overflow of a well-stored mind." He was preeminently a Republican, the friend of the oppressed, and his biographer well says that oppression never had a more powerful nor a more consistent foe. CONTENTS I. Youth II. The Law III. Entrance Into Public Life—Free Schools IV. Constitutional Convention—The " Buck-Shot Was" — Elected To Congress V. Congress — Anti-slavery Speeches VI. Resumes Law Practice — Again Returned To Congress — Campaign Of 1860 VII. Secession — Character Of Slavery Agitation VIII. Leader Of The House IX. The Legal Tender X. War Revenue Measures XI. War Legislation XII. Emancipation XIII. The Beginning or Reconstruction XIV. The Johnson Plan XV. The Rupture With The President XVI.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Thaddeus Stevens (1899). To get started finding Thaddeus Stevens (1899), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Samuel Walker McCall (1851 – 1923) was a Republican lawyer, Massachusetts Governor, and author who wrote the biography "Thaddeus Stevens". Thaddeus Stevens (1792 – 1868) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania and one of the leaders of the Radical Republican faction of the Republican Party during the 1860s. A fierce opponent of slavery and discrimination against African-Americans, Stevens sought to secure their rights during Reconstruction, in opposition to President Andrew Johnson. As chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee during the American Civil War, he played a major part in the war's financing. Stevens hated slavery with an intensity which would be difficult to characterize. It was a passion, as seen in the several speeches made in this Congress, which compare favorably with the best literature of the anti-slavery crusade. But the great fact in the life of Stevens was his matchless leadership in dealing with the question of Reconstruction. Of this, McCall writes: "We of to-day also lose sight of many of the difficulties with which the problem was surrounded, and which have disappeared in the distance. The choice which Stevens and the statesmen associated with him were compelled to make did not lie between the course actually adopted and an ideal condition of things. In the light in which they acted, they were compelled to deal with as grave a national situation as ever existed. It was beyond the power of any surgery at once to deliver society, well and whole, from the condition in which its errors and crimes had placed it." The chapter devoted to Stevens's personal characteristics, particularly his wit and humor, is exceedingly readable. Those who knew him will recall other examples as good as those here given, for his humor was unfailing. McCall writes: "His wit was light, usually genial, and in quality like the autumn sunshine. It was also unfailing. When it suited his purpose, however, he could make it bitter, cynical and even brutal in tone." During a debate in the House a member who was speaking kept walking continually up and down the aisle, and back and forth across the area, under the excitement of his effort, as members are sometimes prone to do. After watching this pedestrian performance for some time Stevens checked it by calling out to the member by name, "Do you expect to get mileage for that speech?" Mr. Brooks, of New York, the Democratic leader, had made a most carefully prepared partisan speech which ransacked history, and Stevens was expected to reply. Stevens referred to the gentleman's "elaborate speech, so full of literary and historical allusions which in superficial scholars might look like pedantry, but in the learned gentleman are but the natural and graceful overflow of a well-stored mind." He was preeminently a Republican, the friend of the oppressed, and his biographer well says that oppression never had a more powerful nor a more consistent foe. CONTENTS I. Youth II. The Law III. Entrance Into Public Life—Free Schools IV. Constitutional Convention—The " Buck-Shot Was" — Elected To Congress V. Congress — Anti-slavery Speeches VI. Resumes Law Practice — Again Returned To Congress — Campaign Of 1860 VII. Secession — Character Of Slavery Agitation VIII. Leader Of The House IX. The Legal Tender X. War Revenue Measures XI. War Legislation XII. Emancipation XIII. The Beginning or Reconstruction XIV. The Johnson Plan XV. The Rupture With The President XVI.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Thaddeus Stevens (1899). To get started finding Thaddeus Stevens (1899), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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