[Reconstruction] [New York Republican Party]:

PROCEEDINGS OF THE REPUBLICAN UNION STATE CONVENTION, HELD IN THE CITY OF SYRACUSE, ON WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5TH, 1866.

[Syracuse: 1866]. 46, [2 blanks] pp. Stitched with caption title, as issued. Very Good.

General Van Wyck opens the Convention with a speech asserting that the former Copperheads and Rebels are still arrayed against us. "The single issue" for the upcoming elections is: "Shall the States lately in rebellion be immediately restored to those rights forfeited by treason, or shall they wait until the results achieved by blood on the field shall be firmly and forever secured by constitutional acknowledgement?"
Johnson's policies encourage "the worst creatures of the rebellion" and "attempt the suppression of the American Congress." Speeches by Lyman Tremain and others insist upon the power of Congress to control the Reconstruction of the Rebel States, and denounce Johnson's appeasement of the South.
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