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7 Fighting the Tide, April 1866–December 1868
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Published:October 2011
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This chapter discusses the heavily Republican Thirty-ninth Congress's vote to override Andrew Johnson's veto of the Civil Rights Bill. In doing so, the legislators signaled their growing determination to resist Johnson's efforts to forge a rapid reunion with the former Confederacy in which the rights of the freedpeople would remain unprotected. Joseph Holt was pleased. Also, in light of Johnson's April 2 declaration that the war was over, the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives took up the question of whether any of the individuals named in the president's May 2, 1865, proclamation linking Jefferson Davis and various members of his Canadian Cabinet to the Lincoln assassination conspiracy should, or even could, still be brought to trial. In conjunction with its examination of this question, the committee, chaired by Republican James F. Wilson of Iowa, requested that Holt appear before them, bringing with him copies of all the relevant papers and documents held by the Bureau of Military Justice.
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