Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Beam-Week-3 Title A name given to the resource This Week in Reconstruction, May 15-22, 1866 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Brooke Beam Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource May 15-22, 1866 Description An account of the resource Tension between Johnson and the Radical Republicans heats up, and neither side of the political spectrum is willing to give in. Johnson makes efforts to execute his promised policies while Radicals search for ways to weaken his power so their bills can be passed. A conference of the Reconstruction Committee believes efforts should be made to eliminate the third section of the amendment which will disfranchise all previous Confederates for four years. A revised clause would replace this section, only depriving former rebel leaders of the right to hold office. Seeing the possible devastation of being excluded from government, eight million potentially disfranchised white Southerners argue that their political, commercial and social relations between the North must be resolved as soon as possible. Damages of war have left the South in financial ruin, and Congress resolves that the national debt which would be imposed on general government should be placed on the Southern states which tried to secede. The South's agricultural labor system has changed due to the removal of slaves, but planters now express relief from burdens of managing unproductive women, children and elders. The Freedmen's Bureau faces opposition in the South where they are seen as an obstacle of Reconstruction. Southerners even charge Freedmen's Bureau officers in Virginia with public wrongdoing. The Union Republican Party of Virginia holds its first meetings and advocates enfranchisement for blacks. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound Mr. Botts on Reconstruction To aid him in damning himself, we quote from The Republic Mr. Botts' plan for restoring the Union. It needs no comment. Every man of southern feelings and honorable impulses will be apt to make a short commentary of his own upon reading the following. Mr. Botts says: I suggest, therefore, that all these difficulties may be remedied by a simple legislative enactment, which might probably receive the President's assent, and, if not, might be carried by a two-thirds vote of both Houses. I propose, then, in substitution for the report of the committee, that it shall be declared by law--That no person hereafter shall be capable of holding any office, legislative, executive, or judicial, in the Federal or State governments for ten years from the passage of the act, who was over the age of twenty-five at the breaking out of the rebellion without taking the following oath in addition to that now required of all such officers by the Constitution of the United States. I, A. B., do solemnly swear that I have not since the 20th day of December, 1860, [the date of the ordinance of secession of South Carolina,] voluntarily taken up arms against the United States, nor have I advised or encouraged others to do so ; that I have not sought or held office under the Confederate States Government, or of that of any State in rebellion, with a view in any manner to aid the rebellion ; that I have not said, written, or done anything designed or of a nature calculated to alienate the affections or allegiance from the Government of the United States, nor have I otherwise given aid and comfort to the rebellion. Let this enactment be accompanied with an absolute remission, in all cases, of the forfeiture of life, liberty, and property, for the crimes committed by and under the authority of those in rebellion; and let it also be declared that if it shall be ascertained that any person has sworn falsely to obtain or hold any office hereby prohibited, such office shall be absolutely vacated, and the party held liable to a prosecution for perjury. URL http://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=DD18660516.1.1&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------# Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1866-05-16 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context BeamBrooke-18660516-LetterFromMrBotts.pdf Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Richmond Daily Dispatch Title A name given to the resource Letter from Mr. Botts