right so was Johnson, and _vice versa_. [Sidenote: Reconstruction in Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina and Florida.] On the 13th of June, the President issued a proclamation of like tenor and containing similar orders for putting the laws of the United States into operation, and for putting similar machinery in motion for reconstruction, in Mississippi. He appointed William L. Sharkey Provisional Governor therein. On the 17th of June, similar steps were taken for the reconstruction of Georgia, with James Johnson as the Provisional Governor; on the 21st of June for the reconstruction of Alabama, with Lewis E. Parsons as Provisional Governor; on the 30th of June for the reconstruction of South Carolina, with Benjamin F. Perry as Provisional Governor; and on the 13th of July for the reconstruction of Florida, with William Marvin as Provisional Governor. [Sidenote: Reconstruction in Virginia.] Already on May 9th, twenty days before the issue of his proclamation of amnesty, the President had issued an executive order putting the laws of the United States in operation in Virginia, and guaranteeing the support of the United States Government to Governor Francis H. Pierpont in all lawful measures for the extension and administration of the "State" government throughout the geographical limits of Virginia. This meant, of course, that the United States Government recognized the shadowy loyal "State" government, which had kept up at least a show of existence throughout the rebellion, as the true "State" government of Virginia, and that Virginia did not need reconstruction, but only the extension of the authority of this government throughout her territorial limits. This was, also, a simple continuation of Mr. Lincoln's policy, as we well know. {38} [Sidenote: Reconstruction in Louisiana, Arkansas and Tennessee.] Of course Mr. Johnson recognized the reconstruction of Louisiana, Arkansas and Tennessee as effected by Mr. Lincoln; so that by mid-summer of 1865 the reconstruction of all the "States" which had passed secession ordinances, except only Texas, had been completed, or had been put in course of completion. [Sidenote: The constitutional conventions of 1865.] During the summer, autumn and early winter of 1865, the Provisional Governors of Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, and Florida ordered elections for the choosing of delegates to constitutional conventions, upon the basis of the old suffrage laws of the respective "States" once answering to these names, modified by the requirements of the Presidential pardon, received after taking the oath of allegiance; and these elections were held and these conventions assembled. [Sidenote: The form of the work done in these conventions, and its substance.]