Thaddeus Stevens Commoner Classic Reprint

Excerpt from Thaddeus Stevens Commoner It has been remarked that republics are ungrateful to their servants. The people forget the great services rendered by those who have put self out of sight in their desire to serve others. Especially true is this in an age like the present - so full of political curiosity and so wanting in political talent. With the desire of calling attention to the inestimable value to the nation of the life of that great public servant, Thaddeus Stevens, and the importance of his stalwart policy in securing the results of the war, the author has written. The unthinking endeavor to east a stigma on the word stalwart by associating it with the spoils system. But it means more than that. The word stands for that bold, courageous, and loyal policy which will be the lasting glory of the Republican party. 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.

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Recounts the history of the Reconstruction, as the United States government and people worked to recover from the effects of the Civil War.