Subsequently ruined by politicians.
” . . . ruined by politicians.”
Career politicians from the East Coast at that! LOL
> Subsequently ruined by politicians. <
Subsequently ruined by John Wilkes Booth.
Yes, like the greedy Stanton (radical Republican, one with a different meaning than today)and his Pinkerton agents, thugs and military supplier fraudsters, licking their chops for the Reconstruction THEY wanted— notably NOT the Reconstruction (which was Lincoln’s term) that Lincoln wanted.
There was a very large bit of motivation there for wanting Lincoln removed, along with his supporters on his Cabinet (not forgetting the permanent maiming of the Secretary of State Sewell who was hugely influential in the control of Westward expansion, and... Alaska), and a volume of work discounted by the cartel at Princeton U—mouthpiece historian apologists . Cui Bono? The occupation union army, scalawags and carpetbaggers who took titled property- (which Andrew Johnson was almost convicted for trying to prevent the massive usurpation of Constitutional law by a rabid power bloc). It took two financial panics to get the “congressional” reconstructionists out of office, and finally in GA the last federal occupying army of scum— presidentially removed in 1876. (See: Fidel for the latter day role model).