ANDREW JOHNSON'S FIRST MESSAGE
Excellent tone and temper of Johnson's first communication to
Congress--Written by George Bancroft--Eulogy of the New York
_Nation_--Johnson's early life and training--A first-rate
stump-speaker--Sumner attacks Johnson for "whitewashing" the
ex-slaveholders--Acts of Southern legislatures passed to keep
the negroes in order--Senator Wilson moves that all such acts
establishing inequality of civil rights be declared
invalid--Trumbull argues for postponement of such legislation
until the Thirteenth Amendment is ratified--Debate between
Trumbull and Saulsbury--Reports of General Grant and General
Carl Schurz on the condition and temper of the Southern
people--Letter from J. L. M. Curry on the same 244