RECONSTRUCTION
Death of Lincoln--Conflict of opinions concerning the status of
the seceding states--Lincoln's proclamation of December,
1863--Reconstruction of Louisiana in pursuance thereof--Trumbull
reports a joint resolution admitting that state--Sumner prevents
the Senate from voting on it--Lincoln's last speech on
Reconstruction--His plan indorsed by William Lloyd
Garrison--Andrew Johnson as President adopts it--Recognizes
Virginia, Tennessee, Louisiana, and Arkansas as restored to the
Union--Issues an executive order appointing a governor of North
Carolina to call a constitutional convention--Negroes not
included in the list of voters--Similar orders issued for the
other seceding states--Wendell Phillips sounds a blast against
President Johnson--Northern newspapers at first favorable to
Johnson--Desperate industrial condition of the South 231