Thanks Steve, first I ever heard of this. The link is to a PDF. I’ll have to read it later.
Curious date though. Remember that just a decade earlier the powers that be made a big fuss over Seward’s folly (a partisan attack on the purchase of Alaska under the guise of fiscal waste).
I guess that once reconstruction was ended, Congress was freed up to dream up things to keep them busy.
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Thanks Steve, first I ever heard of this. The link is to a PDF. I’ll have to read it later.
Curious date though. Remember that just a decade earlier the powers that be made a big fuss over Seward’s folly (a partisan attack on the purchase of Alaska under the guise of fiscal waste).
I guess that once reconstruction was ended, Congress was freed up to dream up things to keep them busy.