“Here were no humiliating terms of submission imposed on a brave people: no amnesty qualifications exacted; no banishment or confiscation laws; no test-oaths, to incite to perjury or foster the resentments of war.”
The president proposes a terrible solution to a very real problem.
The impossible task of rebuilding the recently reclaimed city
The years of abundance and racial reconstruction were all the time making for the darkest folly.