History and government of the United States, for evening schools . very prevented industrial progress, sinceslave labor does not stimulate inventive genius and cannotcompete successfully with free labor in mills and the agricultural con-ditions of the South are farbetter to-day than theywere before the war wasfought, for as a wage-earnerthe Negro is more profitableto his employer than hewas as a slave to his owner. Other Affairs. — In theadministration of Lincolnnational banks were estab-lished, to assist in carry-ing on the affairs of thegeneral government andalso in developing
History and government of the United States, for evening schools . very prevented industrial progress, sinceslave labor does not stimulate inventive genius and cannotcompete successfully with free labor in mills and the agricultural con-ditions of the South are farbetter to-day than theywere before the war wasfought, for as a wage-earnerthe Negro is more profitableto his employer than hewas as a slave to his owner. Other Affairs. — In theadministration of Lincolnnational banks were estab-lished, to assist in carry-ing on the affairs of thegeneral government andalso in developing the busi-ness of the country. The foreign affairs were greatly com-plicated because several European nations were disposed toassist the Confederacy to establish itself as an independentnation. The diplomacy of the minister to England, CharlesFrancis Adams, and the oratory of Henry Ward Beecher, whofrom the platform appealed to the English people to encouragethe Union in setting free the Negro slaves, prevented recogni-tion of the Confederacy by Great Abraham Lincoln 54 HISTORY OF OUR COUNTRY Assassination of Lincoln. — On April 14,1865, the Presidentwas assassinated; and the Vice President succeeded to hisoffice. 58. The Administration of Andrew Johnson (i 865-1869).—After the war was over, a great political problem confrontedthe statesmen of the nation. This was the problem of themethod in which the former Confederate States should resumetheir places in Congress and in government affairs. Somepeople thought that Congress should require each State toapply for admission as though it were a new State. Others,following the opinion of Lincoln, thought that the States shouhlbe encouraged to resume their former places in the Union inevery respect as though they had never seceded. Unfortu-nately, a third set of leaders secured power in the government;so that in the Southern States, for many 3^ears afterward, theSouthern whites who had not fought in Confederate armies
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