It's crazy to me that Johnson let former confederates vote and hold office or hold property. They obviously should have stripped all the slave owners of their property and parcel it out to freed slaves or returned it to whatever indigenous nation was in that area or something, fuck.
It’s crazy to me that Johnson let former confederates vote and hold office or hold property
he was literally a southern democrat. lincoln got rid of his first VP hannibal hamlin and replaced him with a drunk racist piece of shit as an appeal to "national unity" after he already won the civil war. he should have been stomping the face of the vanquished dixie leaders into a soup like homogenate but was instead trying to appeal to them with civility
Marx thought Johnson would've been alright because he was a fairly brutal military governor of Tennessee. Pretty sure he wrote about it to Engels but I cant find the letter.
there's a whole book of their published letters to each other regarding the american civil war but they were spectating from across the ocean in a time when there wouldn't be a "24 hour news cycle" for another 135 years so.
The constitution should have been torn up after the civil war (also the radical republicans should have been far more radical)
It's crazy to me that Johnson let former confederates vote and hold office or hold property. They obviously should have stripped all the slave owners of their property and parcel it out to freed slaves or returned it to whatever indigenous nation was in that area or something, fuck.
he was literally a southern democrat. lincoln got rid of his first VP hannibal hamlin and replaced him with a drunk racist piece of shit as an appeal to "national unity" after he already won the civil war. he should have been stomping the face of the vanquished dixie leaders into a soup like homogenate but was instead trying to appeal to them with civility
Centrism: not even once.
https://i.ibb.co/M2vKN4V/Lincoln-is-proof-centrism-doesnt-work.png
Marx thought Johnson would've been alright because he was a fairly brutal military governor of Tennessee. Pretty sure he wrote about it to Engels but I cant find the letter.
there's a whole book of their published letters to each other regarding the american civil war but they were spectating from across the ocean in a time when there wouldn't be a "24 hour news cycle" for another 135 years so.