Thaddeus Stevens Speech Analysis

After reading the provided statement and considering the points it made I would have to disagree with it on two grounds. Firstly, handing control of the local police to the recently freed slaves would put many people in the police force out of work. This would create a situation similar to that of the Iraq war in which we removed all members of the Baathist party from power, by doing this we put thousands out of work, and essentially created many of the insurgency groups we are dealing with today. The same thing would happen if you gave freed slaves complete control of local police departments, they would ostensibly fire the majority of the white officers. Secondly, the idea of abolishing the southern states, and creating new ones is preposterous. People take pride in calling where they come from and they take pride in calling themselves Texans, Virginians, etc. If you did both of these conjointly even with how
This is because of his evident hatred, and mistrust of the former rebel states, we know this is how he feels because he states in his speech to Congress in which he says “I am for negro suffrage in every rebel State. If it be just, it should not be denied; if it be necessary, it should be adopted; if it be a punishment to traitors, they deserve it” (Weise, et al. Pg. 99). Also, he states, “It would insure the ascendency of the Union party…I believe…that on the continued ascendency of that party depends the safety of this great nation” (Weise, et al. Pg. 99). He makes it well know that ensuring republican control of the government is of significant importance to high. These aforementioned measures would allow the republicans to easily secure their position as the ruling party, and they would punish the traitorous south. For these reasons Thaddeus would support the ideas outlined in the aforementioned