Considered from this point of view, and in the absence of Congressional action, the President’s plan of reconstruction was, to a certain extent, proper, if not necessary, and very little obnoxious to objections sometimes brought against it.
Sumner acknowledges that the President's reconstruction plan could be seen as necessary in the absence of Congressional action.
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