Excerpt from Slavery: Attitudes About Slavery; Lincoln's Personal Reaction; Excerpts From Newspapers and Other Sources This was a moderate proposition. Though not quite so moderate as Lincoln's, _for Lincoln remarked to Hahn, but J ohnson did not_to Sharkey: But this isonly a sug g'estion, not to the public, But to you alone. The Johnson scheme did not disai'm the adversary - the element, 'small' as yet, but rapidly growing, which Wanted unrestricted negro suffrage - nor would it have had this effect if_ it had been adopted by every one of the eleven seceded states. Fullnegro suffrage, or had been part of the reconstruction plans of Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens from the be ginning, and this policy was at last forced on Congress less than two years after Lin coln's death. 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.