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@History Learner I have a question for you: What do you think that the odds would have been that the Blair Plan would have been subverted/derailed by Union abolitionists even if the Confederacy would have actually agreed to it? They could plausibly argue that the Union's already shed blood...

Interesting that tempers cooled over just a couple of years!

I'm surprised that the 14th and 15th Amendments didn't change their minds in regards to this. But as you previously said, they might have thought that eventual subversion of these Amendments was doable, so why bother with an insurgency?

You don't need a state for an insurgency, do you? And the easy Johnson Reconstruction ended after the huge Republican victory in the 1866 midterms, no?

AFAIK, the Klan was mostly crushed by the early 1870s. And the 14th Amendment was proposed in 1866, just one year after the end of the American Civil War. So, it wasn't anywhere near a decade after the war.

In regards to the latter part, while Northern peace terms towards the South might have been generous initially, they significantly hardened later on. Specifically the 14th and 15th Amendments. Heck, even in 1874-1875, the US Congress almost passed a bill by a two-thirds margin to ban school...

I meant risks to his and his party's popularity. The next US federal elections won't be until November 1866, if I recall correctly. And tens of thousans of additional deaths aren't that much from an overall statistical perspective when so much US blood has already been shed in the ACW. BTW...

You mean like with compensation for slaveowners? Also, if there's no 13th A, then that means no 14th A or 15th A either, right? This would certainly have a huge effect on US constitutional law and judicial rulings, especially later on, in the 20th century and beyond.

But Lincoln already won reelection by then, so he could afford to take risks!