The Struggle between President Johnson and Congress over ReconstructionChadsey, Charles E. (Charles Ernest)
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The Struggle between President Johnson and Congress over Reconstruction
Chadsey, Charles E. (Charles Ernest)
Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875; United States -- Politics and government -- 1865-1869
[113] _Ibid._, 141-2, 232. For general discussions and summaries of the
debates on the 14th Amendment, see Wilson, _Rise and Fall of the Slave
Power in America_, iii, 647-660; Wilson, _History of Reconstruction_,
218-266; Blaine, _Twenty Years of Congress_, ii, 193-214.
[114] The vote was: yeas, 120; nays, 46.
[115] _Congressional Globe_, 39th Congress, 1st Session, p. 2459.
[116] Yeas, 128, nays, 37.
[117] On May 29, _Congressional Globe_, 39th Congress, 1st Session, p.
2869.
[118] See Pollard's _Lost Cause Regained_, p. 74.
[119] _Senate Journal_, 39th Congress, 1st Session, p. 502.
[120] On the reorganization of Tennessee, see Blaine, _Twenty Years of
Congress_, ii, 50-52, 214-17; Cox, _Three Decades of Federal Legislation_.
[121] _House Reports_, No. 30, pt. 1; McPherson, _History of the
Reconstruction_, pp. 105-6.
[122] Ratified by the Senate July 11, yeas, 15, nays, 6; by the House July
12, yeas, 43, nays, 11. Tennessee was the third State to ratify the
amendment, Connecticut and New Hampshire being the first two.
[123] McPherson, _History of the Reconstruction_, pp. 151-4.
[124] Blaine, _Twenty Years of Congress_, ii, 219-220.
[125] The Congressional committee of investigation, appointed at the
beginning of the 2d session, in December, submitted a detailed report of
the riots. See _House Reports_, No. 16, 2d Session, 39th Congress. See
also Blaine, _Twenty Years of Congress_, ii, 233-237.
[126] _House Reports_, No. 16, 39th Congress, 2d Session, p. 26.
[127] See below for an account of this canvass.
[128] _House Reports_, No. 16, 39th Congress, 2d Session, pp. 24-27;
McPherson, _History of the Reconstruction_, 137.
[129] McPherson, _History of the Reconstruction_, 118, 119; Blaine,
_Twenty Years of Congress_, ii, 220-223.
[130] Among these Republicans were Thurlow Weed, Edgar Cowan, James R.
Doolittle, A. W. Randall, O. H. Browning, James Dixon, Henry J. Raymond,
R. S. Hale, J. A. Dix, Marshall O. Roberts and Montgomery Blair.
[131] McPherson, _History of the Reconstruction_, 240-1.
[132] Blaine, _Twenty Years of Congress_, ii, 222.
[133] McPherson, _History of the Reconstruction_, 127.
[134] McPherson, _History of the Reconstruction_, 129. This manner of
indicating his disinterestedness caused great offense in some quarters.
See the account below of the Pittsburg convention of soldiers and sailors
of September 26.
[135] See Blaine, _Twenty Years of Congress_, ii, 237-239.
[136] McPherson, _History of the Reconstruction_, 130.
[137] McPherson, _History of the Reconstruction_, 131, 132.
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