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I will have to disagree and state that I think that years of guerilla war in the South would have been preferable to the actual outcome. It would have kept fed

by evgen 7y ago

I will have to disagree and state that I think that years of guerilla war in the South would have been preferable to the actual outcome. It would have kept federal troops in the South for a generation at least and enforced structural changes upon southern society and its economy that would have probably lessened the unpleasant costs and consequences of southern racism for the next century. A simmering rebellion in the South would have also tied Johnson's hands and enabled the legislature to fully enact its desires (or at the very least ensured Johnson's conviction by the Senate.)

pdonis 7y ago
> I will have to disagree and state that I think that years of guerilla war in the South would have been preferable to the actual outcome. This is an interesting hypothetical. I don't agree that it would have been preferable to what actually happened, because I'm not as much of a fan of the radical Republicans and the impeachment of Johnson as you seem to be. But these are judgment calls about which I think reasonable people can disagree.