The Journal of the Joint Committee of Fifteen on Reconstruction: 39th Congress, 1865-1867

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Kendrick, Benjamin B. The Journal of the Joint Committee of Fifteen on Reconstruction. 39th Congress, 1865-1867. New York: Columbia University Press, 1914. 414 pp. Three plates. Reprint available September 2004 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-443-6. Cloth. $90. * President Johnson's failure to pursue an aggressive Reconstruction policy incited Congress to supplant his authority by establishing the Joint Committee of Fifteen on Reconstruction, which drafted the Civil Rights Act (1866), the Reconstruction Act (1867) and the Fourteenth Amendment (1868). Due to a series of mishaps the committee's journal was never printed by the government. Brought home by Senator William Pitt Fessenden, one of the committee's members, it remained in his family until it was sold at auction. It was finally acquired by Columbia University, where it remains today. Kendrick offers the complete text of the journal (166 pages) and an extensive history of the committee's work. Published originally in the Columbia University series Studies in History, Economics and Public Law, this work is cited frequently in the literature on Reconstruction.
 

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Thaddeus Stevens
20
Second election to Congress 1858
35
B THE JOURNAL OF THE JOINT COMMITTEE ON RECONSTRUCTION
36
CHAPTER I
133
Stevens criticism of Lincoln
138
The conquered province theory of reconstruction
163
William Pitt Fessenden
169
Fessenden and the impeachment of Johnson
180
Action of the House on the declaratory resolution
239
Johnson fails to grasp the situation
249
The question of Tennessees admission again becomes important
256
Johnson vetoes the Civil Rights bill and the breach with the con
263
The committees first draft of the present fourteenth amendment
303
CHAPTER VIII
307
Modification of the amendment by the Republican senators
316
Temporary postponement of the bill
328

George S Boutwell
187
The Democratic members Johnson Grider Rogers
195
Opinions of the press
210
Conservative and Democratic opposition
216
The House resolution creating the committee
228
Presidents veto of the Freedmens Bureau bill tends to alienate
232
THE RECONSTRUCTION
354
The Blaine amendment
397
Stevens final plea against the Blaine amendment
403
Motives of Stevens and the radicals
410
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