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What the South Needs First
January 18, 1866 issue

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The article focuses on issues related to the reconstruction of Southern states in the U.S. There have been nearly a dozen ways suggested since last May of pacifying and regenerating the South. First of all, there was the plan of giving the suffrage to the blacks by a general order of the President. But he refused to issue any such order, and the Connecticut and Wisconsin votes justified, or at least seemed to justify, him in his refusal. Then there was the plan of holding military possession of the South, and governing it by martial law, until it gave signs of being clothed and in its right mind, but this never met with much popular favor, and is still surrounded with difficulties.

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RECONSTRUCTION (U.S. history, 1865-1877); SUFFRAGE; BLACKS; MARTIAL law; SOUTHERN States; UNITED States
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