Translations:Abraham Lincoln/24/en

Johnson turned out to be as much of an obstacle to the Radicals as Lincoln had been. He declared himself the enemy of their goals of monopoly, centralization of power in a national government, and the unlimited exploitation by corporations of the country’s natural resources. “Wherever monopoly attains a foothold,” he said, “it is sure to be a source of anger, discord, and trouble.” As Professor Howard K. Beale writes, “For the future of industrial America, Johnson’s championship of public interest and the common man was far more dangerous than any Southern policy he might conceive.”