Do You Think Reconstruction Is Good?

As an advisor to Rutherford B. Hayes, I have been asked to research the subject of Reconstruction. It is my position to explain some of the major factors of the subject, and analyze the South's future position.
<Tab/>President Abraham Lincoln wished to restore the South so that it might become a strong Republican land after the Civil War, and so he issued a Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction. It was to excuse any Confederate that would promise to support the Union, as well as the Constitution. If the state in which the Confederate took the oath passed a few conditions, the state's government would eventually receive executive recognition.
<Tab/>Lincoln first stated that he would not try to rid the states of slavery - that he would only try to diminish the expansion of slavery by refusing slavery to expand past the original states that allowed it.…