© 1997 The University of North Carolina Press All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources. Frontispiece: Thaddeus Stevens at the height of his power, leader of radical Republicans in the House of Representatives, 1866. (Library of Congress) This book was set in Adobe Caslon by Keystone Typesetting, Inc. Book design by Heidi Perov Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Trefousse Hans Louis. Thaddeus Stevens: nineteenth-century egalitarian by Hans Louis Trefousse. p. cm. -- ( Civil War America) Includes bibliographical references (p.) and index. ISBN 0-8078-2335-x (cloth: alk. paper) 1. Stevens Thaddeus, 1792-1868. 2. Legislators -- United States -- Biography. 3. United States -- History -- 1849-1877. 4. United States. Congress. House -- Biography. I. Title. II. Series. E415.9.s84T74 1997 328.73′092--dc20 [B] 96-35004 CIP 01 00 99 98 97 5 4 3 2 1 -iv- |