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In February, 1868, the House impeached Johnson, having investigated him for, among other things, intentionally derailing the Davis prosecution.

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This was the raucous atmosphere in which President Johnson, on two occasions, called for two of the enemies he most bitterly despised, the Radical Republican Congressman Thaddeus Stevens and the abolitionist orator Wendell Phillips, to be hanged. It should be remembered that political violence, up to and including assassination, was endemic at this time—indeed, an actual Civil War had just ended, and the president had been shot by someone from the losing side. In particular, politicians and activists who fought for the civil rights of black Americans, as Stevens and Phillips proudly and honorably did their entire lives, were common targets of white violence. Whomever Johnson might have meant for the gods to destroy, this was no purely rhetorical threat in 1866. And Johnson felt comfortable bandying such rhetoric because he considered men like Phillips and Stevens not just his political enemies, but enemies of the people. His view—common enough at the time, of course, and still active today in an only slightly evolved form—was that enfranchisement of black men was disenfranchisement of whites. And so Johnson could claim that in stoking the mood of vicious racist reaction, he was only trying to prevent an assault on American liberty. “I call upon you here tonight as freemen to favor the emancipation of the white man as well as the colored man,” he said in St. Louis.

Making Impeachment Matter

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Andrew Johnson

Andrew Johnson

Basic Info

b. December 19, 1808 - d. July 31, 1875

Term: April 15, 1865 - March 4, 1869

Party: Democrat

From: Born in North Carolina, active in Tennessee

As the embodiment of the saying "anyone can be president" in the US, Johnson's presidency started off like that of Tyler and Filmore, and later on Lyndon B. Johnson would follow the steps of ascension like these vice presidents. The actions of Johnson's presidency shown through the major conflicts prove what he shaped the country to be after the Civil War.

Political Offices

US House of Representatives - Tennessee (1843-1853)

Governor of Tennessee (1853-1857)

Military Governor of Tennessee (1862 - 1865)

Vice President (March 4, 1865 - April 15, 1865)

US Senator of Tennessee (March 4, 1875 - July 31, 1875)

Main Points of Inaugural Speech (Link):

Main Conflicts

Reconstruction

Industrial Revolution

Civil Rights Act of 1866

14th Amendment

Impeachment

Media

A wood engraving depicting the House and it's official notice of the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson. Library of Congress. March 14, 1868.

Presidential Commentary

Once again, the United States filled its executive branch with the ascension of a vice president due to the death of the president. In this case the first assassination happened against Abraham Lincoln which ultimately change the course of what the nation looked like after the Civil War. There were many aspects of Johnson’s presidency that clashed with the ideal many had post-Civil War and ended up labeling him as one of the worst presidents of US History.

The first major issue that showed weakness in Andrew Johnson‘s presidency was the fact that he “handed out thousands of pardons in almost routine fashion” which caused many to wonder what kind of punishment those in the south deserved (Miller Center). The failure to stick through the beginning of the reconstruction era with a strict plan to deal with what the south did reflected later on when the Republicans wish to engage in creation of equality laws for African-Americans. Had Johnson been stricter with the rules of which individuals should be pardoned and which should be punished, perhaps there would have been more push towards giving those Freedmen more freedoms and rights. This way the conflicts in the government would not have been as extensive. It would have pushed towards more equalizing legislature and changed the lives of many people.

Another issue of Andrew Johnson was his inability to work with the Congress of his term. Most people thought that he would agree with the notions of the Republican party as he was the Vice President of a Republican president. However, he let his racism get the better of him, saying that if the Freedmen’s Bureau was passed then the “blacks” would spend their lives living in wasteful laziness (Miller Center). Many of the rights of the blacks that would have probably passed through Lincoln were nearly impossible for those in Johnson’s time. He also became impossible to work with, vetoing acts and laws that made him a target of impeachment. This is not a surprise but seems to be a consequence of his actions and his inability to serve as an adequate president. Those before him knew the importance of compromise and rationality but he let his personal feelings get the better of him.

No matter how rough the presidency of Andrew Johnson started off, it did not end any better for him. As he was the first president to be impeached, the many actions of Andrew Johnson led to his downfall and the consequential inability to get a second term as well as many other issues that went alongside this. Although there is proof that Andrew Johnson freed the slaves that he once held, the actions of not allowing the freedmen to have the same rights as the “white Americans” caused much controversy and fighting against the acts to support them, he proved that he was incapable of being a president who sought the better for all of the people (Britannica). It is only a surprise that the Senate failed to convict him after months of bitter arguments of legislation. The lesson to be learned from Johnson is to be more open-minded as president.

Citations/Links:

https://www.loc.gov/item/2002697737/

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Andrew-Johnson

https://millercenter.org/president/johnson/domestic-affairs

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August 20

President Andrew Johnson declared the end of the Civil War on August 20, 1866. Too bad not everyone got the memo.

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