Excerpt from Papers Read Before the Lancaster County Historical Society, Friday, June 6, 1913, Vol. 17: Thaddeus Stevens and the Southern States; Society's Annual Outing; Minutes of the June Meeting This view of Stevens doubtless, to a great extent, influenced his course in the case of Senator (3. Io. Clay, Jr., of Alabama, at the close of the war. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.