[11] _House Journal_, 1st Session, 38th Congress, pp. 238-9. [12] For a very able discussion of the "Efforts at Compromise, 1860-61," see Frederic Bancroft's article in _Political Science Quarterly_, vi, pp. 401-423. [13] _Congressional Globe_, 1st Session, 37th Congress, p. 129. [14] _Ibid._, 2d Session, 37th Congress, part i, p. 8. [15] _Senate Journal_, 3d Session, 37th Congress, p. 24. [16] See Pollard's _Lost Cause Regained_, pp. 44-57, for a discussion of the growth of Southern sentiment favoring measures of peace. [17] It is improbable that he ever modified his views as to the continued existence of the States--views which were essentially those of his successor, though less dogmatically asserted. See Hurd, _Theory of Our National Existence_, 36 and _Index_; Pollard, _Lost Cause Regained_, 65. [18] Cooper, _American Politics_, pp. 141-3. [19] Blaine, _Twenty Years of Congress_, ii, 36. [20] _Congressional Globe_, 3d Session, 37th Congress, part i, p. 834. [21] _House Journal_, 3d Session, 37th Congress, pp. 69, 70. [22] Cooper, _American Politics_, bk. i, pp. 141-3. On Lincoln's plan of Reconstruction, _Cf._ Gillet, _Democracy in the United States_, pp. 297-9; Pollard, _Lost Cause Regained_, 65, which claims that Lincoln could have successfully carried out his policy had he lived, but does not sustain the statement; Cox, _Three Decades_, etc., pp. 336-345; Wilson, _Rise and Fall of the Slave Power_, iii, 519-20; Scott, _Reconstruction during the Civil War_, 267 ff. [23] These excepted classes were: (1) Confederate civil and diplomatic officers; (2) Confederates who had left U. S. judicial positions; (3) officers above colonel in army and lieutenant in navy; (4) those who had formerly been U. S. Congressmen and had aided the rebellion; (5) those who left U. S. Army and Navy to aid the rebellion; (6) those who had treated negroes captured while in U. S. military or naval service otherwise than as prisoners of war. [24] Wilson, _Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America_, iii, 531-41; _Cf._ Gillet, _Democracy in the United States_, pp. 304-7. [25] For results of this reorganization in Tennessee, see chap. iii. [26] With one exception--a Republican, Whaley, of West Virginia, voted with the negative. [27] So called from the chairmen of the House and Senate committees reporting the bill. [28] _Congressional Globe_, appendix, 1st Session, 38th Congress, p. 84. See also _Lalor_, iii, 546; Cox, _Three Decades_, etc., 339-341; Wilson, _Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America_, iii, 520-28; Johnson's _American Orations_, iii, 242-260; Scott, _Reconstruction during the Civil War_, 274 ff. [29] Cooper, _American Politics_, bk. i, p. 169. [30] _Congressional Globe_, part ii, 38th Congress, 1st Session, p. 1246. [31] _Congressional Globe_, iii, p. 2106, 1st Session, 38th Congress.