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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC00329 |
| From Archive Folder | Documents Relating to the 1860s |
| Title | Reconstruction leaflet denouncing the Freedman's Bureau and supporting Andrew Johnson |
| Date | 1866 |
| Document Type | Pamphlet |
| Content Description | One side titled, "ECONOMISE AND PAY YOUR DEBT!: Restore the South and increase your resources." The other side titled, "ONLY SEVEN MILLIONS!" One side denounces the funding Congress passed in the Freedman's Bureau Bill as support for "lazy negros." The other argues the money is needed for the national debt and praises President Johnson's veto of the bill. Echoes Johnson's belief that buying land, building schools, and offering relief to freedmen was unprecedented, would make paupers and vagrants out of freemen already prone to indolence, and was unaffordable. This break between the president and congress cemented Johnson's alliance with Northern Democrats and southern whites in opposition to Radical Republicans. |
| Subjects | African American History Slavery Freemen Reconstruction President Finance Economics Congress Politics Education Land Transaction Democratic Party |
| People | Johnson, Andrew (1808-1875) |
| Place written | Pennsylvania |
| Theme | Reconstruction; Government & Politics; African Americans; Slavery & Abolition |
| Sub-collection | Papers and Images of the American Civil War |
| Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |