What are the major differences separated president Stevens and Johnson?

Question

The presidents of course hehe.. This is may be a tough question! =)

Thaddeus Stevens.. He isn't really a president. Once Andrew was impeached... I am not a real history buff...

During Johnson’s impeachment trial, Stevens was so ill that he had to be carried into the Senate chamber and died in Washington, D. C., less than three months after the President’s acquittal.

http://www.impeach-andrewjohnson.com/11BiographiesKeyIndividuals/ThaddeusStevens.htm

Answer 1

Since you weren’t specific about a country, and there has been no President Stevens of the United States, I can only guess that you are referring to President Siaka Probyn Stevens of the Republic of Sierra Leone. As to the difference between him and President Johnson, there are far too many to list here, please reword and be more specific.

Since Stevens was never president the question isn't tough, rather, it is impossible to answer.

Answer 2

I see you asked this question again later, and unfortunately got the "standard" answer -- the Johnson was all about a "soft peace" and reconciliation, much like what Lincoln was seeking, while Stevens and the Radical Republicans simply wanted to PUNISH the South for its rebellion.

This is, unfortunately, a very superficial answer (though popular with some Southerners, because it makes it possible to blame Reconstruction failures on the NORTH), and misses the real issue separating the two sides.

Actually, the web site you got that link from does a VERY GOOD job of straightening this all out (I've selected some 'best links' from it below).

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While it's true "punishing" was at times AN important motive of the Radical Republicans, Johnson was himself happy with the notion of the Southern PLANTER (big plantation owners) being made to suffer. He had always -ed them and their hold on Southern society. HIS wish was for the smaller, yeoman farmer

Key to Johnson's vision was that he did NOT care much about what happened to the recently freed slaves. And it was THIS that brought him into such conflict with the Radical Republicans (esp. the most radical, like Stevens). Johnson attempted to FINISH Reconstruction quickly, and announced all was accomplished in December 1865, so that the Confederate states could be allowed to function as full, equal members of the Union.

But he IGNORED the fact that during the previous six months those states had begun to move to gain things they had supposedly LOST in the war. In particular, they passed "Black Codes" that forced "contracts" on the recently freed blacks, threatened them with easy arrest for "vagrancy", exacted harsher penalties... and in short sought to make them, in fact, if no longer in name, very much what they had been as slaves!!

The REACTION of the Radical Republicans was mostly about trying to PROTECT the RIGHTS of the newly freed blacks against such codes, then also the right to VOTE (the 14th amendment). The passed measures like the Freedmen's Bureau Bill and the Civil Rights Bill, both of which Johnson promptly vetoed.

The Radicals actually didn't have the power to overcome these vetoes UNTIL more moderate Republicans joined them in RESPONSE to Johnson's vicious, personal attacks against the Radicals, including Sumner and Stevens (including unbelievable tirades during the campaign of 1866) and the addition of more Republicans to Congress (in part BECAUSE of those tirades).

At any rate, what the Radicals were demanding was that the states NOT be fully admitted UNTIL they would supply stronger guarantees of the protections of blacks and their civil rights.

SOME of the Radicals -- Stevens chief among them-- wished to go even further, though they were not able to enact their program. Stevens specifically advocated the seizure of the LARGEST plantations (whose owners would have been prominent supporters of the Confederacy), and redistributing the land to freed blacks to give them a new start.

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To see what Stevens was suggesting, take a look at the following

"Speech of the Hon. Thaddeus Stevens of Pennsylvania, Delivered in the House of Representatives, March 19, 1867, on the Bill (H.R. No. 20) Relative to Damages to Loyal Men, and for Other Purposes"
http://chnm.gmu.edu/courses/122/recon/stevens.htm
full speech - http://history.furman.edu/~benson/hst41/silver/stevens1.htm

Note especially his remarks on this provision:

"The fourth section provides, first, that out of the lands thus confiscated each liberated slave who is a male adult, or the head of a family, shall have assigned to him a homestead of forty acres of land, (with $100 to build a dwelling) which shall be held for them by trustees during their pupilage.

"Let us consider whether this is a just and [sic: politic] provision.

"Whatever may be the fate of the rest of the bill, I must earnestly pray that this may not be defeated. On its success, in my judgment, depends not only the happiness and respectability of the colored race, but their very existence. Homesteads to them are far more valuable than the immediate right of suffrage, though both are their due."
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The web site you linked to -- "The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson"
- the site tells the story of the struggles betwween Johnson and Congress... with over 200 excerpts from contemporary coverage of these events in Harper's Weekly (1865-69)

Here are what I think are the most useful pages in explaining the conflict I described above
http://www.impeach-andrewjohnson.com/05AJFirstVetoes/AJFirstVetoes.htm
http://www.impeach-andrewjohnson.com/02KeyPoliticalIssues/RadicalismConservatism.htm
http://www.impeach-andrewjohnson.com/02KeyPoliticalIssues/FutureControlOfCongress.htm

And here is a nice characterization of Stevens's approach that appears just BEFORE the words you cited:

"Stevens was an early and vehement critic of President Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction policy and eventually became a leader in the effort to impeach the president. An advocate of treating Southern states during Reconstruction as "conquered provinces," Stevens encouraged strong, sweeping action by the federal government to revolutionize the institutions and culture that bolstered white supremacy in the South. The measures he supported included the Fourteenth Amendment and an unsuccessful plan to confiscate plantations and redistribute the land to former slaves. He was a member of Congress' joint committee on Reconstruction, but it was dominated by moderates."
http://www.impeach-andrewjohnson.com/11BiographiesKeyIndividuals/ThaddeusStevens.htm

compare: http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USASstevens.htm