On this day in 1867, Rep. Thaddeus Stevens (R-PA), the House Majority Leader, gave an important speech in support of his "Forty Acres and a Mule" proposal to assist emancipated slaves in the Democrat-controlled South. Continued at Michael Zak's Grand Old Partisan...
Monday, March 19, 2007
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