[15] Letter from Johnson to Stanton dated June 3, 1865, in same archives. [16] M. F. U., July 11, 1865. [17] M. F. U., July 18. Savannah _Republican_, July 1 and 3. [18] J. C., 1865, p. 3. [19] J. C., 1865, p. 8. [20] _Ibid._, pp. 17, 18. [21] _Ibid._, p. 234. The ordinance to this effect was passed only after a hard fight, and after a telegraphic warning from the President that if it failed the state would fail of restoration. See S. D., 39th Congress, 1st session, no. 26, p. 81. [22] J. C., 1865, pp. 18 and 28. [23] S. J., 1865-6, p. 3. [24] S. D., 39th Congress, 1st session, no. 26, p. 95. [25] S. L., 1865, p. 313. [26] M. F. U., December 19 and 26, 1865. [27] See Jenkins' message to the legislature, M. F. U., December 19, 1865. [28] K. K. R., vol. 6, p. 320 (testimony of John B. Gordon). [29] Report of Carl Schurz on conditions in the South, made in December, 1865. S. D., 39th Congress, 2d session, no. 2. [30] Report of Carl Schurz on conditions in the South, made in December, 1863. S. D., 39th Congress, 2d session, no. 2. [31] Art. v, sect. 1, § 1. [32] Art. ii, sec. 5, § 5. [33] S. L., 1865-66, p. 6. [34] S. L., 1865-66, p. 234. [35] Before, the maximum penalty for rape, arson, and burglary in the night had been imprisonment for 20 years, and for horse stealing imprisonment for 5 years. [36] S. L., 1865-66, p. 232; 1866, p. 151. [37] _Ibid._, 1866, p. 150. [38] _Ibid._, 1865-66, p. 233. [39] S. L., 1866, p. 153. [40] _Ibid._, 1865-66, p. 239. [41] _Ibid._ [42] _Ibid._, p. 240. [43] _Ibid._, 241. [44] S. L., 1866, p. 59. [45] J. C., 1865, p. 16. [46] _Ibid._, p. 17. [47] _Ibid._, 137. [48] S. L., 1866, p. 216. For the governor's message and the report of the committee to which the amendment was referred, see A. A. C., 1865, p. 352. For a further expression of public opinion, see Atlanta _New Era_, October 19, 1866. [49] S. L., 1865-66, p. 315. [50] S. L., 1865-66, p. 14, and S. L., 1866, p. 143. [51] S. L., 1866, p. 219. [52] Report of Carl Schurz above cited. [53] C. G., 39th Congress, 1st session. Appendix, p. 1. [54] One of the Senators elect from Georgia had been Vice-President of the defunct Confederacy. [55] C. G., 39th Congress, 1st session, p. 2. [56] R. C., 39th Congress, 1st session, vol. ii, p. iii. [57] C. G., 39th Congress, 1st session, appendix, p. 82. [58] C. G., 39th Congress, 1st session, p. 915. [59] U. S. L., vol. 14, p. 27. [60] Trumbull's speech, C. G., 39th Congress, 1st session, p. 474. [61] R. C., 39th Congress, 1st session, vol. ii. [62] Senate resolution (by Andrew Johnson), C. G., 37th Congress, 1st session, pp. 243, 265; House resolution (by Crittenden), _ibid._, pp. 209, 222. [63] U. S. L., vol. 14, P. 358. [64] _Ibid._, p. 173. [65] U. S. Senate Journal, 39th Congress, 2d session, p. 21. [66] C. G., 39th Congress, 2d session, p. 814. [67] _Ibid._ [68] C. G., 39th Congress, 2d session, p. 251. [69] U. S. L., vol. 14, p. 428.