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HISTORY
35. New York Times, January 18,
1867; Cincinnati Commercial, January 23, 1867.
36. Congressional Globe, 39th
cong., 2nd sess., 816.
37. Ibid., 1079-80.
38. Ibid., 1080-83; Kendrick, Journal
of the Joint Committee of Fifteen, 393-396.
39. McKitrick, Johnson and
Reconstruction, 479-485; Cincinnati Commercial, Feb-
ruary 20, 1867.
40. Congressional Globe, 39th
cong., 2nd sess., 1213-14.
41. Cincinnati Commercial, February
16, 18, 1867.
42. Cited in Alphonse B. Miller, Thaddeus
Stevens (New York, 1939), 328.
43. McKitrick, Johnson and
Reconstruction, 498-504; John A. Bingham
to wife,
February 16, 1868. Bingham Papers, Ohio
Historical Society.
44. George S. Boutwell, Reminiscences
of Sixty Years in Public Affairs (New York,
1902), 119-120.
45. Congressional Globe, 40th
cong., 1st sess., 263: Bingham to Lucy and Emma
Bingham, March 26, 1867, in the
possession of Mr. Milton Ronsheim.
46. Ellis P. Oberholtzer, A History
of the United States Since the Civil War (New
York, 1922), II, 81-85.
47. Bingham to Lucy and Emma Bingham,
April 11, 1868, in the possession of Mr.
Milton Ronsheim.
48. Cincinnati Commercial, May 5,
6, 7, 1868; Albert G. Riddle, The Life of Ben-
jamin F. Wade (Cleveland, 1896), 284; David M. DeWitt, The
Impeachment and Trial
of Andrew Johnson (New York, 1903), 505-513; Congressional Globe
Supplement, The
Proceedings of the Senate Sitting for
the Trial of Andrew Johnson, 40th
cong., 2nd
sess., 379-406.
49. Cincinnati Commercial, May 7,
1868.
50. Oberholtzer, A History of the
United States Since the Civil War, II, 141-142;
Congressional Globe, 40th cong., 2nd sess., 2504, 4474.
51. Cincinnati Commercial, February
3, 1869; Congressional Globe, 40th cong., 3rd
sess., 638.
52. Ibid., 722.
53. Ibid., 1426.
54. William Gillette, The Right to
Vote: Politics and the Passage of the Fifteenth
Amendment (Baltimore, 1965), 62-63.
55. Congressional Globe, 40th
cong., 3rd sess., 1427.
56. Gillette, The Right to Vote, 70-71.
57. Oberholtzer, A History of the
United States Since the Civil War, II, 255-257,
261-266; Congressional Globe, 41st
cong., 2nd sess., 244-245, 492-495, 716-717, 4782-83,
4795-97.
58. Rembert W. Patrick, The
Reconstruction of the Nation (New
York, 1967),
155-156, 296; Dunning, Reconstruction,
Political and Economic, 1865-1877, p. 184-189.
59. Congressional Globe, 41st
cong., 2nd sess., 3853-55, 3882-84; 41st cong., 3d sess.,
1280-85.
60. Ibid., 42nd cong., 1st sess.,
514, 522, 798; ibid., Appendix, 81-82.
61. Beale, The Critical Year, 109.
62. Dunning, Reconstruction,
Political and Economic, 1865-1877, p. 185-186.
63. Donald, The Politics of
Reconstruction, 146; C. Vann Woodward's review of the
latter in American Historical Review,
LXXII (October 1966), 314-317.
64. Cadiz Republican, June 24,
1870; Cleveland Leader, August 2, 1872.
65. Oberholtzer, A History of the
United States Since the Civil War, II, 605. After
Bingham's death, the citizens of Cadiz
erected a statue in his memory. See Senator Jo-
seph B. Foraker's eulogy on the occasion
of the unveiling of the statue in Ohio Archaeo-
logical and Historical Society
Publications, X (1902), 331-351.
THE NOMINATION OF
RUTHERFORD HAYES
FOR THE PRESIDENCY
Research for this article was conducted
with the support of a grant from the Ameri-
can Philosophical Society.
1. Editorial, "The Great
Unknown," Boston Journal, May 9, 1867.
2. Governor J. J. Bagley of Michigan was
one of the first prominent political figures