The life and speeches of Thomas Williams orator, statesman and jurist, 1806-1872, a founder of the Whig and Republican parties . his subject,and also how far toward the position he then took thecountry and Congress itself had moved. It also shows thefirst premonitions of the contest that was to rage wnthsuch bitterness between the legislative and Mr. Speaker, he began, nearly two years ago. and whilethe war was flagrant, I felt it my duty as a member of this body Congressional Globe. Thirty-ninth Congress, ist Session, Part i, p. 21. Congressional Globe, Thirtvnintii Con
The life and speeches of Thomas Williams orator, statesman and jurist, 1806-1872, a founder of the Whig and Republican parties . his subject,and also how far toward the position he then took thecountry and Congress itself had moved. It also shows thefirst premonitions of the contest that was to rage wnthsuch bitterness between the legislative and Mr. Speaker, he began, nearly two years ago. and whilethe war was flagrant, I felt it my duty as a member of this body Congressional Globe. Thirty-ninth Congress, ist Session, Part i, p. 21. Congressional Globe, Thirtvnintii Congress, ist Session. i. p. 7&4. The congressional executive committee valued it so highly that after theregular issue was exhausted they ordered 100,000 more. Letter of March 15,1866, among the Williams papers. Mr. Williams led action against the Presidents course ctrly in the ses-sion by offering two resolutions, one directing that no troops should be re-moved from the South without the direction of Congress and the otherdirecting the trial of Davis and Lee by a military commission. Letter ofJanuary 27, 1866. 554. PRESIDKNT ANDKKW JOHNSONontemporary photograph by Brady, negatiL. C Handy, Washiogton, D. C. RECONSTRUCTION VCrsltS RESTORATION 555 to look into the question of the relations that had been producedby it, the privileges that have been forfeited on the one hand, andthe rights and powers that had been acquired on the other, witha view to the readjustment of the whole machine by the resto-ration of those parts that had been sundered from it by the dis-turbance. With some—the infirm of faith—the inquiry wasthought to be premature. This, however, was not the judgmentof the last Congress. It passed a bill which did not meet theapproval of the Executive, because it interfered with a planof his own that had not proved acceptable to it, and the questionwas adjourned without advice from that body, and in such away as to leave the field open for experiments with which i
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