Then explain Lincoln's words about the hate and vindictiveness toward the South of some in Congress. Why did Lincoln want governments formed before Congress reconvened?
From American History 102 (Stanley K. Schultz, Professor of History, William P. Tishler, Producer) at the University of Wisconsin (History 102).
Both Lincoln and Johnson had foreseen that the Congress would have the right to deny southern legislators seats in the United States Senate or House of Representatives, under the clause of the Constitution that says: "Each house shall be the judge of the qualifications of its own members." This denial came to pass when, under the leadership of Thaddeus Stevens of Pennsylvania, those Congressmen who sought to punish the south refused to seat its duly elected Senators and Representatives. Then, within the next few months, the Congress proceeded to work out a plan of southern reconstruction quite different from the one Lincoln had started and Johnson had continued.
Here is another (When Republicans were Radical).
Composed mainly of pre-war abolitionists, the Radical Republicans wanted to punish the South for the horrors of slavery and for four years of civil war. They were led in the House by Thaddeus Stevens and George W. Julian and in the Senate men like Charles Sumner, Benjamin F. Wade, and Zachariah Chandler provided leadership. They had strongly disagreed with Lincoln’s program for Reconstruction maintaining it was much too lenient.In December 1863, Abraham Lincoln had drafted a program designed to reconstruct the South. Known as the “Ten Percent” plan, it offered a pardon to all Southerners (except Confederate leaders) who took a loyalty oath. When ten percent of that state’s voters had taken the oath, they could establish a new state government. The Radicals strongly opposed this plan and drafted their own course of action, the Wade-Davis bill. This bill, which was vetoed by Lincoln, proposed to delay the formation of new Southern governments until a majority of voters had taken the oath, and equal rights for former slaves must accompany the South’s re-admission to the Union.
Looks like you disagree with Lincoln.
Perhaps you'd like to read the Wade-Davis Manifesto by two leading Radical Republicans (hint: they were not Democrats). This manifesto criticizes Lincoln (Manifesto against Lincoln). It says in part:
That judgment of Congress which the President defies was the exercise of an authority exclusively vested in Congress by the Constitution to determine what is the established Government in a State, and in its own nature and by the highest judicial authority binding on all other departments of the Government. .A more studied outrage on the legislative authority of the people has never been perpetrated.
...He has already exercised this dictatorial usurpation in Louisiana, and he defeated the bill to prevent its limitation. .
...the whole body of the Union men of Congress will not submit to be impeached by him of rash and unconstitutional legislation...
Which side are you on, the Radical's or the dictatorial usurper's?