[Reconstruction]:

MESSAGE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, RETURNING BILL (S. 60) TO AMEND AN ACT ENTITLED "AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A BUREAU FOR THE RELIEF OF FREEDMEN AND REFUGEES," AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES, WITH HIS OBJECTIONS THERETO.

[Washington]: 1866. February 19, 1866. 39th Cong., 1st Sess. SED25. 10pp, disbound, Very Good.

This document is President Johnson's fateful veto of the Freedmen's Bureau Act, which changed the course of Reconstruction. The President was profoundly unsympathetic to the notion that the freed slaves required special protection from white populations in the seceded states. The voters repudiated his position at the polls in 1866, giving Congress a veto-proof majority. Item #34537

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