Reply #3: re: "Reconstruction would have been a lot different..."

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"Reconstruction would have been a lot different if Lincoln had lived until 1868, imho."

I've read historians who said that the radical Republicans would have impeached even Lincoln. He really wasn't that popular a president during his lifetime--the rank-and-file Republicans distrusted him, and he was virtually demonized in the South. It was only after his assassination that he became the folk hero he is now.