Thaddeus Stevens
Thaddeus Stevens was a Vermont man born in 1792. He attended Dartmouth and in 1815 moved to Pennsylvania after graduating. He was a lawyer by trade, and gained a reputation for defending runaway slaves free of charge. After many years in Pennsylvania, he served on the state legislature as a Republican and became best known for his defense of public schooling. His term ended in 1842, but he was elected to Congress in 1848 as a Whig. During his time in Congress he took every opportunity to take an anti South position, and in general opposed them any way he could. He was best known for being the leader of the Radical Republicans, who, during the Civil War, held the opinion that the conflict should be an extermination, then recolonization, of the South. Bonkers.
"Strip the proud nobility of their bloated estates, reduce them to the level of plain republicans, send them forth to labor, and teach their children to enter the workshops or handle the plow, and you will thus humble proud traitors." -Thaddeus Stevens
"Strip the proud nobility of their bloated estates, reduce them to the level of plain republicans, send them forth to labor, and teach their children to enter the workshops or handle the plow, and you will thus humble proud traitors." -Thaddeus Stevens