[jeffersondem]

“The Federal government was never in total control after the election of 1876 ending Reconstruction.”

Union bayonets won a glorious victory and now you don’t want to own it!

By your telling within four years of the disaster at Appomattox the South had the strength to force a corrupt Grant administration on the nation.

[BroJoeK]

jeffersondem: "By your telling within four years of the disaster at Appomattox the South had the strength to force a corrupt Grant administration on the nation."

Naw, you're confused about history.
The 1876 presidential election pitted Republican Ohio Gov. Rutherford B. Hayes against Democrat New York Gov. Samuel J. Tilden.
The vote was close and the election resolved by a corrupt bargain:

"An informal deal was struck to resolve the dispute: the Compromise of 1877, which awarded all 20 electoral votes to Hayes; in return for the Democrats conceding to Hayes' election, the Republicans agreed to withdraw federal troops from the South, ending Reconstruction.[2]"

With the withdrawal of Federal troops, Democrats took over the South and effectively nullified the 13th, 14th & 15th Amendments for nearly 100 years.

Of course, you know all that, right?

[cowboyusa]

Your the same as the left, you both hate the US.

[cowboyusa]

You are the same as the left, you hate the US. By the way, the South would have broken up into more little states.