.....rioonservativeî, the snoba, and the male wait„ , ing-maids in Congress, were in hysterics. ,,* The whole fabric of southern society must ',, ,. be changed, and never can it be done if this : i ,: ,opportunity is lost. Without this, this Govail , , ernment овп sever be, ns it never hag...

...the landed interest must govern, the more it is subdivided and held by independent owners the better. How can republican institutions, free schools, free...exist in a mingled community of nabobs and serfs, of owners of twenty-thousandacre manors, with lordly palaces, and the occupants of narrow huts inhabited...

...prosperous, democratic, and loyal republic. "The whole fabric of southern society," he declared in 1865, "must be changed, and never can it be done if this opportunity is lost." 15 Stevens seems to have assumed that such a desire was widely shared in the Republican party. And...

...where a few thousand men monopolize the whole landed property. . . . How can republican institutions, free churches, free social intercourse exist in a mingled community of nabobs and serfs, of owners of twenty-thousand-acre manors, with lordly palaces, and the occupants of narrow huts inhabited...

...thousand men monopolize the whole landed property. . . . How can republican institutions," Stevens asked, "free schools, free churches, free social intercourse...exist in a mingled community of nabobs and serfs, of owners of twenty-thousand-acre manors, with lordly palaces, and the occupants of narrow huts inhabited...

...Pennsylvania, September 7, 1865: "The whole fabric of Southern society must be changed, and it never can be done if this opportunity is lost. . . . How can...exist in a mingled community of nabobs and serfs; of the owners of twenty thousand acre manors with lordly palaces and the occupants of narrow huts inhabited...

...September 1865, Thaddeus Stevens, a Pennsylvania congressman and an ardent opponent of slavery, asked, How can republican institutions, free schools, free...exist in a mingled community of nabobs and serfs; of the owners of 20,000 acre manors with lordly palaces and the occupants of narrow huts inhabited...

...Thaddeus Stevens commented when he submitted his proposal for a land redistribution to Congress in 1865: "How can republican institutions, free schools, free...intercourse exist in a mingled community of nabobs and serfs?"4 Indeed, "forty acres and a mule" epitomized the dream of blacks at the end of the Civil War....

...a Radical Republican leader in the US House of Representatives, made it plain in a speech in 1865: "The whole fabric of southern society must be changed...never can it be done if this opportunity is lost. ... It never has been a true republic. Heretofore, it had more the features of aristocracy than of...

...Schau. 1811-1869 (Madison, Wis., 1928), 340-41; CG, 39th Congress, 2d Session, 1 18, Appendix, 78. The whole fabric of southern society must be changed,...never can it be done if this opportunity is lost. Without this, this Government can never be, as it has never been, a true republic. . . . How can republican...