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3 days ago · In March 1865, Representative Thaddeus Stevens of Pennsylvania proposed that all planter lands in the former Confederacy be confiscated and redistributed to ex-slaves and poor whites in forty-acre tracks.
4 days ago · “The country,” a Pennsylvania Republican, Congressman Thaddeus Stevens, said after Johnson’s acquittal by a single vote in the Senate, “is going to the devil.” The Civil War is much romanticized today, but it was easy in the 1870s to call Stevens a prophet, to look at the Grand Old Flag and despair at the cost of keeping it flying.
3 days ago · Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner continued to support land reform for freedpeople, but were opposed by a large bloc of politicians who did not want to violate property rights or redistribute capital. Many radical Northerners withdrew their support for land reform in the years following the war.
1 day ago · Radical Republican leader Thaddeus Stevens proposed, unsuccessfully, that all former Confederates lose the right to vote for five years. The compromise that was reached disenfranchised many Confederate civil and military leaders.
5 days ago · Chaired by grist mill owner and farmer James McAllister Jr., the group agreed to publish bold anti-slavery principles, which Gettysburg attorney and future U.S. Congressman Thaddeus Stevens...
1 day ago · As for those who, in the tradition of abolitionist jurisprudence like that of Senator Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens, would sift the Constitution back and forth through the Declaration of Independence until it is swallowed up by their view of that text, I can only respond with the language of Justice James Iredell, who in the 1798 case of ...
2 days ago · The trial took place at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, with Supreme Court Justice Robert Grier presiding and Congressman Thaddeus Stevens leading the defense. Castner Hanway, who refused to join the posse or to prevent the attack on the slave catchers, was the first tried.
