JOHNSON, Andrew. Autograph letter signed ("Andrew Johnson"), to Joseph S. Fowler, Greenville, Tennessee, 22 January 1871. 2 pages, 8vo, in pencil .
JOHNSON, Andrew. Autograph letter signed ("Andrew Johnson"), to Joseph S. Fowler, Greenville, Tennessee, 22 January 1871. 2 pages, 8vo, in pencil . AMNESTY, THE 14TH AMENDMENT AND JOHNSON'S BITTERNESS AGAINST HIS WASHINGTON ENEMIES A fine Johnson letter, mentioning amnesties of former Confederates, the 14th Amendment, and Johnson's lingering bitterness towards his Washington enemies. "Enclosed [not included] please find autographs and manuscripts as requested. I am compelled to do all my writing in pencil as I presume you are aware, since the injury of my arm and hand...Give my regard to Senator Thurman, he is kindly remembered by me, having served one Congress with him in the House of Reps....There is more feeling [in Tenn.] among the office holders in reference to Amnesty than anything else. Tell Judge Milligan he must write to me in regard to some questions he and I were talking about before he left, about which no doubt you and he has [heard] since you reached Washington. Will Cooper take his seat without opposition. Is the position of Elector an office under the 3rd Sec. of the 14th Amendment to the constitution. Have you obtained the opinion of any of the wise at Washington on the subject. There is much to be done in this state next summer and you must prepare to help do the work. Read the pencil scrawl I send for your friend and give it to him or destroy as you think best." The bruising politics of Reconstruction still plays out, 5 years after Appomattox. "Cooper" did indeed take his seat--former federal judge Henry Cooper now a Democratic Senator from Tennessee. Under the third article of the 14th Amendment, anyone who previously quit a federal post to join the Confederacy (as Cooper had) could never again hold a position in any branch of the U. S. government. However, a two-thirds vote of Congress could remove the disability.
JOHNSON, Andrew. Autograph letter signed ("Andrew Johnson"), to Joseph S. Fowler, Greenville, Tennessee, 22 January 1871. 2 pages, 8vo, in pencil .
JOHNSON, Andrew. Autograph letter signed ("Andrew Johnson"), to Joseph S. Fowler, Greenville, Tennessee, 22 January 1871. 2 pages, 8vo, in pencil . AMNESTY, THE 14TH AMENDMENT AND JOHNSON'S BITTERNESS AGAINST HIS WASHINGTON ENEMIES A fine Johnson letter, mentioning amnesties of former Confederates, the 14th Amendment, and Johnson's lingering bitterness towards his Washington enemies. "Enclosed [not included] please find autographs and manuscripts as requested. I am compelled to do all my writing in pencil as I presume you are aware, since the injury of my arm and hand...Give my regard to Senator Thurman, he is kindly remembered by me, having served one Congress with him in the House of Reps....There is more feeling [in Tenn.] among the office holders in reference to Amnesty than anything else. Tell Judge Milligan he must write to me in regard to some questions he and I were talking about before he left, about which no doubt you and he has [heard] since you reached Washington. Will Cooper take his seat without opposition. Is the position of Elector an office under the 3rd Sec. of the 14th Amendment to the constitution. Have you obtained the opinion of any of the wise at Washington on the subject. There is much to be done in this state next summer and you must prepare to help do the work. Read the pencil scrawl I send for your friend and give it to him or destroy as you think best." The bruising politics of Reconstruction still plays out, 5 years after Appomattox. "Cooper" did indeed take his seat--former federal judge Henry Cooper now a Democratic Senator from Tennessee. Under the third article of the 14th Amendment, anyone who previously quit a federal post to join the Confederacy (as Cooper had) could never again hold a position in any branch of the U. S. government. However, a two-thirds vote of Congress could remove the disability.
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