nstituted it, but an everlasting refutation of thecharges which have been brought against them."3 As the war progressed the Vice-president was oftencalled upon to make addresses to the people at criticalperiods, in all of them he characterized the invasion of theSouth as an unjust war. Stephens was an excellent publicspeaker despite his high-pitched girlish voice. Often hisviews on slavery were questioned. He was a humanitarian, sohis slaves were treated very fairly. Stephens never jailedof whipped them, and he never separated families. In fact,none of his slaves ever tried to run away. Also during histerm as Vice-president, he centered his official duties onaiding soldiers in hospitals and prisons because heemphasized with them. He himself suffered from angina,bladder stones, colitis, migraine headaches, pneumonia,pruritis, rheumatoid arthritis, and sciatica. He was a leader of the moderate faction of Confederatesand an advocate of a peaceful resolution of the war. Afterthe war, he was imprisoned at Fort Warren in Boston for fivemonths in 1865, then released. He was then reelected byGeorgians to the U. S. Senate under the terms of PresidentJohnsons lenient Reconstruction plan. But, RadicalRepublicans, refused to recognize the new state governmentsin the South, so Stephens was not allowed to take his seat.When Reconstruction had finally ended, he returned toCongress and served there from 1877 until 1882. He was thenelected governor of Georgia. But, during his term he gotsick and died on March 4, 1883. Incredible funeral honorswere paid to Alexander Hamilton Stephens at the capitol andin the state of Georgia he is remembered as one of the greatmen of his times.Born about forty-one years after the death of AlexanderHamilton Stephens was George Herbert Walker Bush- futurePresident of the United States of America. Bush was born inMilton, Massachusetts on July 12, 1924 and then grew up inGreenwich, Connecticut. He came from a ...
