re: #107 freetoken

I have now convinced myself that Johnson and Grant was too quick to set aside what needed to be done: to redivide the South along new legal boundaries, to dissolve the Confederate states, and set up new States with new constitutions and borders (thus de-linking old political connections.)

Johnson I think was the weak one.

But then again Grant saw much death and destruction, so he was probably predisposed to get over as quickly as possible whatever needed to be done.

Johnson more than Grant.

Grant was the one who re-invaded the South to take on the KKK, and to enforce the 1875 Civil Rights Act. Had some pretty good success with it, too… that’s why the South was so determined to end Reconstruction. (and the Republicans betrayed him and Lincoln when they made the corrupt bargain around the 1876 election — Florida’s electoral votes were up in the air, and party bosses negotiated that they’d let R-Hayes have it if he’d agree to remove federal troops and not enforce that CRA. D-Tilden was happy enough to lose the white house, since they were getting everything they’d wanted to use it for.)