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	Wade Davis Bill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Wade-Davis Bill of 1864 was a program for the Reconstruction of the South written by two Radical republicans, Senator Benjamin Wade of Ohio and Representative Henry Winter Davis of Maryland.
		Lincoln therefore killed the bill with a pocket veto and it was not resurrected.
		Davis was a bitter enemy of Lincoln, because he was not harsh enough.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wade_Davis_Bill (708 words)

	USA: Proclamation on the Wade-Davis Bill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Whereas, at the late Session, Congress passed a Bill, "To guarantee to certain States, whose governments have been usurped or overthrown, a republican form of Government." a copy of which is hereunto annexed:
		And whereas, the said Bill was presented to the President of the United States, for his approval, less than one hour before the sine die adjournment of said Session, and was not signed by him:
		And whereas, the said Bill contains, among other things, a plan for restoring the States in rebellion to their proper practical relation in the Union, which plan expresses the sense of Congress upon that subject, and which plan it is now thought fit to lay before the people for their consideration:
	odur.let.rug.nl /~usa/P/al16/writings/wdveto.htm (139 words)

	WADDINGTON, W.H. - LoveToKnow Article on WADDINGTON, W.H. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In the Senate Wade was from the first an uncompromising opponent of slavery, his bitter denunciations of that institution and of the slaveholders receiving added force from his rugged honesty and sincerity.
		In 1864, with H. Davis (q.v.), he secured the passage of the Wade-Davis Bill (for the reconstruction of the Southern States), the fundamental principle of which was that reconstruction was a legislative, not an executive, problem.
		This bill was passed by both houses of Congress, just before their adjournment, but President Lincoln withheld his signature, and on the 8th of July issued a proclamation explaining his course and defining his ' position.
	16.1911encyclopedia.org /W/WA/WADDINGTON_W_H_.htm (1445 words)

	Benjamin Wade (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		During the Civil War, he was chair of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War and sponsored the Wade-Davis Bill (1864), an early attempt by Congress to wrest control over the Reconstruction process from the President.
		The bill stipulated Confederate disfranchisement, a loyalty oath of 50 percent of the electorate, and abolition of slavery before a state could be readmitted to the Union.
		Wade’s position as president pro tem of the Senate made him next in line to succeed to the Presidency.
	www.impeach-andrewjohnson.com /11BiographiesKeyIndividuals/BenjaminWade.htm (208 words)

	Benjamin F. Wade
		In 1864, with H. Davis, he secured the passage of the Wade-Davis Bill (for the reconstruction of the Southern States), the fundamental principle of which was that reconstruction was a legislative, not an executive, problem.
		This bill was passed by both houses of Congress, just before their adjournment, but President Lincoln withheld his signature, and on the 8th of July issued a proclamation explaining his course and defining his position.
		His son,,James Franklin Wade, was colonel of the 6th United States (colored) cavalry during the Civil War, and attained the rank of major-general in the regular army in 1903, commanding the army in the Philippines in 1903-04.
	www.nndb.com /people/047/000103735 (612 words)

	AllRefer.com - Benjamin Franklin Wade (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		During the Civil War, Wade and his radical Republican colleagues set up the meddlesome committee on the conduct of the war, of which he was chairman.
		The Wade-Davis Bill, drawn up with Representative Henry W. Davis, was approved (July, 1864) by Congress as the committee's plan of Reconstruction.
		As president protempore of the Senate, Wade was next in line for the presidency, and he eagerly awaited Johnson's conviction on impeachment charges.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/W/Wade-Ben.html (302 words)

	Wade - Davis Bill
		The Wade-Davis Bill required that 50 percent of a stats white males take a loyalty oath to be readmitted to the Union.
		And be it further enacted, That the said commissioners, or either of them, shall hold the election in conformity with this act, and, so far as may be consistent therewith, shall proceed in the manner used in the state prior to the rebellion.
		And whereas the said bill was presented to the President of the United States for his approval less than one hour before the sine die adjournment of said ses- sion, and was not signed by him;
	www.classbrain.com /artteenst/publish/article_55.shtml (904 words)

	Benjamin Wade (1800-1878)
		Wade labored earnestly for a vigorous prosecution of the war, was the chairman and foremost spirit of the joint committee on the conduct of the war in 1861-62, and was active in urging the passage of a Confiscation Act.
		In September, 1861, Wade wrote to Zachariah Chandler that Lincoln's views on slavery "could only come of one, born of poor white trash and educated in a slave State." Wade was especially angry with Lincoln when he was slow to support the recruitment of fl soldiers into the Union Army.
		Wade was in fact defeated for re-election in 1868 in a very close vote in the Ohio legislature after the Democrats won a narrow majority in state elections.
	www.thelatinlibrary.com /chron/civilwarnotes/wade.html (2084 words)

	mumblage \| the wade davis interview
		Davis, though, withstood academia’s blunt projectiles to continue his explorations of outré culture from the deepest Amazon to the highest Arctic to ever-mystical Tibet.
		The Mumblage spoke with Davis, an expansive and almost frighteningly intelligent conversationalist, over the phone from Washington, DC—his base camp when he’s not trekking through forgotten lands or kicking it with his wife and kids in obscure corners of his native Canada.
		Wade Davis: Well, Serpent is an interesting piece of work that became somewhat controversial, mostly because of the egregious movie that came out of it.
	www.mumblage.com /wadedavis.html (2468 words)

	Davis Will Sign Bill to Enshrine Roe v. Wade
		Davis' 2002 campaign website already boasts that the incumbent governor "helped make California the most pro-choice State in the nation, signing into law seven pieces of legislation to strengthen a woman's right to choose."
		Kuehl said the assembly's nearly 50 percent approval of the bill confirms Davis' notion that California is "taking the lead" on abortion issues nationwide.
		Heralded by homosexual activists as California's first lesbian state senator, Kuehl believes her pro-abortion bill will protect Californians from an "anti-choice president, an anti-choice Congress and the Supreme Court," which she fears is one vote away from overturning Roe v.
	www.acljlife.org /news/abortion/020822_davis_enshrine_Roe.asp (574 words)

	Mr. Lincoln's White House: Benjamin F. Wade (1800-1878)
		Wade served as chairman of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War and the Senate Committee on Territories.
		Lincoln and Senator Wade: "On March 6, 1863, several weeks after replacing Burnside with Hooker, Lincoln met with his new commander of the Army of the Potomac and with influential Republican Senator Benjamin Wade, chairman of the powerful Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War.
		Wade's abrasive personality and position on issues such as inflation may have caused some senators to doubt the wisdom of impeachment.
	www.mrlincolnswhitehouse.org /inside.asp?ID=164&subjectID=2 (624 words)

	Henry W. Davis
		Davis worked as a lawyer in Baltimore, where he became an active member of the Whig Party.
		Although critical of Abraham Lincoln, it was mainly due to Davis that Maryland did not secede from the Union.
		On the outbreak of the Civil War Davis joined the Republican Party and in 1863 was re-elected to the House of Representatives.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USASdavis.htm (394 words)

	Abraham Lincoln - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lincoln was among the 82 Whigs in January 1848 who defeated 81 Democrats in a procedural vote on an amendment to send a routine resolution back to committee with instructions for the committee to add the words "...a war unnecessarily and unconstitutionally begun by the President of the United States".
		Lincoln was the leader of the "moderates" regarding Reconstruction policy, and usually was opposed by the Radical Republicans led by Thaddeus Stevens in the House and Charles Sumner and Benjamin Wade in the Senate (though he cooperated with those men on most other issues).
		One of Lincoln's few vetoes during his term was of the Wade-Davis Bill, an effort by congressional Republicans to impose harsher Reconstruction terms on the Confederate areas.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Abraham_Lincoln (9318 words)

	Charles Sumner, Wade-Davis Bill, 10 percent plan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Benjamin Wade, an antislavery champion from Ohio, and Henry Winter Davis, a representative from Maryland, sponsored the W-D bill that provided for the administration of the affairs of southern states by provisional governors until the end of the war.
		In 1862, Wade said to the Senate: If there is any stain on the present Administration, it is that they have been weak enough to deal too leniently with those traitors.
		On the 4th May, 1864, the Wade-Davis Bill was passed in the House of Representatives by 73 to 59.
	www.owlnet.rice.edu /~mwfriedm/terms/corin_15.html (1317 words)

	Wade-Davies Act
		In Benjamin Wade and Henry Winter Davis, sponsored a bill that provided for the administration of the affairs of southern states by provisional governors until the end of the war.
		Wade-Davis Bill was passed in the House of Representatives by 73 to 59.
		The idea of pocketing a bill and then issuing a proclamation as how far he will conform to it is matched only by signing a bill and then sending in a veto.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USASwadedavis.htm (561 words)

	HIST 129 Sample Lesson - History of the United States after the Civil War
		According to this bill, only after fifty percent of the citizens of a rebellious state had sworn an oath of allegiance to the Union could reconstruction begin.
		Congress had passed this bill to extend the tenure of the Freedman's Bureau until a reconstruction policy could be agreed on.
		The use of "Black Codes" by Southern states to repress fls, as well as racial riots in some Southern cities during the summer of 1866, indicated to Republican congressmen that the reconstruction stalemate between the president and Congress had to be resolved.
	www.kuce.org /isc/previews/hist/hist129_lesson.html (2532 words)

	RECONSTRUCTION IN TEXAS
		Though it was vetoed by President Lincoln, the Wade-Davis Bill, passed in July, 1864, demonstrated Congress felt it, rather than the chief executive, had the power and responsibility to set the requirements for readmission to the Union.
		Further, the Wade-Davis Bill prohibited slavery in all reconstructed states and made slaveowning a federal crime punishable by fines and imprisonment.
		The Davis administration and Congressional Reconstruction were exceedingly unpopular among the majority of Texans for multiple reasons.
	www.austincc.edu /lpatrick/his1693/reconstr.html (3043 words)

	Obscura
		The Wade-Davis Bill Many Congressional Republicans believe that the 10 Percent Plan is too lenient since it does nothing to end the economic and political power of the planter class or protect the civil rights of ex-slaves.
		The Wade-Davis Bill requires each state to abolish slavery, repudiate their acts of secession, and refuse to honor wartime debts.
		Lincoln refuses to sign the Wade-Davis Bill because, he wrote, he is not ready "to be inflexibly committed to any single plan of restoration."
	www.mdcbowen.org /obscura/2001/04/18.html (306 words)

	Wade-Davis bill
		Congress passed the Wade-Davis bill in 1864 as a substitute for Lincoln's ten percent plan.
		Whitewater is the popular name for a failed 1970s Arkansas real estate venture by the Whitewater Development Corp., in which Governor (later President) Bill Clinton and his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, were partners; the name is also used for the political ramifications of this scheme.
		In 1846 Pennsylvania Congressman David Wilmot introduced an amendment (proviso) to an appropriations bill that provided for banning slavery from any territory the United States might acquire from Mexico as a result of war.
	www.hoover.k12.al.us /hhs/SocialStudies/twilhite/HWAssist/Glossary/glossary-w.htm (3138 words)

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		The Wade-Davis Bill allowed at least half of the eligible voters to make an oath of allegiance to the Union and then they could elect delegates to abolish slavery and prevent secession.
		The difference with the Wade-Davis Bill was that it would delay the readmission process indefinitely unlike Lincoln’s 10 percent plan.
		Following congressional approval of the state constitution, ratification by the state government of the Fourteenth Amendment, and once the amendment became a part of the constitution, then the state could be readmitted to the Union.
	www.gacs.pvt.k12.ga.us /facstaff/mglenn/EVch16.doc (3891 words)

	HarpWeek: Cartoon of the Day (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		As the Union military advanced across the South in December 1864, making Confederate defeat seem to be only a matter of time, artist Thomas Nast drew a holiday illustration betokening mercy for the vanquished and sectional reconciliation for the nation.
		Sponsored by Senator Benjamin Wade of Ohio and Congressman Henry Winter Davis of Maryland, the Wade-Davis bill passed the House of Representatives, 73-59, on May 4 and the Senate, 18-14 (with only one Republican dissenting), on July 2.
		The Wade-Davis bill agreed with Lincoln’s plan in the appointment of a provisional governor and a simple loyalty oath in the initial stage.
	www.harpweek.com /09Cartoon/BrowseByDateCartoon.asp?Month=December&Date=31 (1433 words)

	Wade, Benjamin Franklin on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		WADE, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN [Wade, Benjamin Franklin] 1800-1878, U.S. Senator from Ohio (1851-69), b.
		Wade spreads the wealth: Heat guard's shooting was hot in Game 1.
		Advancing on the pro-life front: pro-life marches on the 33rd anniversary of Roe v.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/W/Wade-Ben.asp (368 words)

	Slavery Timeline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In early 1864 the governments of Louisiana, Arkansas, and Tennessee are reconstructed under Lincoln’s "Ten Percent Plan." Radical Republicans are shocked at the policy’s leniency, so Congress refuses to recognize the governments or seat their elected federal representatives.
		President Johnson vetoes the bill, but Congress overrides the veto and the bill becomes law.
		The president vetoes the bill and Congress overrides his action.
	blackhistory.harpweek.com /4Reconstruction/ReconTimeline.htm (1617 words)

	Mr. Carron's Sixth Period Class
		By the end of 1863, as the tide of the Civil War began to shift in the North’s favor, Congress began to consider the question of how the Union would be reunited.
		In response to Lincoln’s plan, Congress passed the Wade-Davis bill that set more stringent requirements for creating new state governments in the South.
		When Lincoln received the bill, he chose not to sign it, thus killing the bill with a pocket veto.
	comsewogue.k12.ny.us /~ssilverman/documents/carron6/carron6.htm (452 words)

	SparkNotes: Reconstruction (1865–1877): Lincoln’s Ten-Percent Plan: 1863–1865
		The bill stated that a southern state could rejoin the Union only if 50 percent of its registered voters swore an “ironclad oath” of allegiance to the United States.
		The bill also established safeguards for fl civil liberties but did not give fls the right to vote.
		Because the Wade-Davis Bill was passed near the end of Congress’s session, Lincoln was able to pocket-veto it, effectively blocking the bill by refusing to sign it before Congress went into recess.
	www.sparknotes.com /history/american/reconstruction/section1.html (1151 words)

	United States History Quiz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Montgomery had been the slave of Joseph Davis and in that capacity had been the _____________ of Davis’s plantation.
		Benjamin Montgomery sought to create a model society for freedmen at Davis Bend and preached a gospel of _______________________________..
		Lincoln used a _________ to defeat the Wade-Davis Bill.
	www.gprep.org /fac/sjochs/presidentialreconstructionquiz.htm (752 words)

	U.S. Capitol Historical Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Kansas-Nebraska Bill, of which Senator Douglas of Illinois was the main sponsor, passed Congress repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and establishing Kansas and Nebraska as territories whose settlers could vote on slavery.
		Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts was severely beaten with a cane on the Senate floor by Rep. Preston Brooks of South Carolina after Sumner insulted Brooks' uncle, Senator Butler of South Carolina, in a speech on the admission of Kansas to the union.
		Provisional governments were established in the southern states, which abolished slavery, amended the state constitutions, and repudiated the state war debt.
	www.uschs.org /04_history/subs_timeline/04a_04.html (1736 words)

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