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Reconstruction and the Constitution, 1866-1876 (Paperback)
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Reconstruction and the Constitution, 1866-1876 (Paperback)
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Loot Price R385
Discovery Miles 3 850
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text.
Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book
(without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.
1902 edition. Excerpt: ...Adjutant-General, and repaired to the
official head-quarters of the General of the army. Stanton
manifestly regarded the matter in the same way, for upon receiving
his copy of the notice of the Senate's action, he went to the room
of the Secretary of War, and resumed the duties of Secretary of War
without further ceremony. He did not even go to see Grant, but sent
word over to the head-quarters of the General of the army summoning
Grant to wait upon him in the Secretary's room. There is no
question now in any calm and impartial mind that the Senate acted
most inconsiderately, not to say wrongfully, in passing that
resolution, cg, of The situation was a perfectly plain one. The
etateres" President and Stanton could not work together, since they
had lost all confidence in each other. Common-sense and common
decency required in such a case the retirement of the subordinate.
The Senate itself had committed itself to this view in the
discussion and votes upon the Tenure-of-Office bill, in its
original form and in its final form. General Grant, the man who
stood first in the confidence of the whole people, was in
possession of the War Office. He had held it already nearly six
months, and had in that short time improved the administration of
it very greatly. At the end of the six months, at farthest, the
President was held by the law of 1795, a law whose
constitutionality he did not dispute, to make a nomination to the
Senate of a permanent incumbent. The Senate would then be able to
prevent the appointment of any person to the office who did not
have the confidence of the Senate and the country. No possible harm
could thus have come to the country from acquiescing in Stanton's
suspension, and it is hard to see that anything but harm did come
to it in...
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