What exactly is the point of getting rid of the planters? They lost power anyway within a generation or so - and the governments which replaced them, dominated by poorer whites, were more racist than their predecessors, not less. From a black pov, it was a change for the worse.
In any case, though, the whole thing is academic, as the votes in Congress for such measures simply never existed. Even the House version of the 14th Amendment, which would have disfranchised leading Rebs until 1870, proved too much for the Senate and had to be watered down. And even the weakened measure, in its turn, lasted only till 1872, when a Congress still heavily Republican produced two-thirds votes in both houses to lift virtually all the disabilities imposed by the 14A.
Practically everyone was eager for reconciliation. Some Republicans would have preferred it not to be at the expense of the Negro, but over time even that reservation faded. The poltical will for the sort of extreme measures being suggested here did not exist and couldn't be made to exist.
In any case, though, the whole thing is academic, as the votes in Congress for such measures simply never existed. Even the House version of the 14th Amendment, which would have disfranchised leading Rebs until 1870, proved too much for the Senate and had to be watered down. And even the weakened measure, in its turn, lasted only till 1872, when a Congress still heavily Republican produced two-thirds votes in both houses to lift virtually all the disabilities imposed by the 14A.
Practically everyone was eager for reconciliation. Some Republicans would have preferred it not to be at the expense of the Negro, but over time even that reservation faded. The poltical will for the sort of extreme measures being suggested here did not exist and couldn't be made to exist.