Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas and Tennessee rebelled against the Government of the United States, and were in such condition on the 8th day of November, 1864, that no valid election for electors of President and Vice-President of the United States, according to the Constitution and Laws thereof, was held therein on said day, etc." [Sidenote: Reconstruction in Tennessee.] Louisiana, which had fulfilled the President's conditions of reconstruction, was thus included in this list, and also Tennessee, where by order of Governor Andrew Johnson, the candidate for Vice-President on the Lincoln ticket, an election of electors had been held. Tennessee had not, at the time of the counting of the {23} electoral vote, completed any process of reconstruction. The convention, called at Governor Johnson's instigation to meet at Nashville for the purpose of nominating candidates for Presidential electors, had called a constitutional convention to meet in Nashville on December 19th, following the Presidential election, for the purpose of undertaking the work of reconstruction. Hood's advance upon Nashville delayed its meeting, however, until January 3d. This convention took the old constitution of Tennessee as its starting-point and subjected it to a pretty thorough revision in the direction of a "free State government." It also prescribed a rather stiff test oath for all persons offering to vote upon the adoption of the amendments, an oath which not only promised future loyalty to the Constitution of the United States, such as Lincoln had prescribed, but which also required the taker of it to swear that he was an active friend of the Government of the United States, and an enemy of the so-called Confederate States. The amended constitution had not, however, been submitted to the voters at the date when Congress counted the electoral vote, that is, before the 8th of February, 1865, and of course no "State" government had been elected under the amended constitution. The vote upon the constitution occurred on the 22d of February, and the election of the Governor and the members of the Legislature under it occurred on March 4th.