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Charles E. Chadsey. The Struggle between President Johnson and Congress over Reconstruction
The Struggle between President Johnson and Congress over Reconstruction
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I
THEORIES OF RECONSTRUCTION PRIOR TO THE CLOSE OF THE WAR
CHAPTER II
JOHNSON’S THEORY: THE EXPERIMENT, AND ITS RESULTS
CHAPTER III
THE ATTITUDE OF CONGRESS TOWARDS THE EXPERIMENT: DEVELOPMENT OF THE CONGRESSIONAL THEORY
CHAPTER IV
THE CAMPAIGN OF 1866
CHAPTER V
THE CONGRESSIONAL THEORY FULLY DEVELOPED
CHAPTER VI
THE IMPEACHMENT OF THE PRESIDENT
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Charles E. Chadsey
Published by Good Press, 2021
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In place of this method of organization, which Mr. Davis justly thought so wretchedly loose, he proposed that the President should appoint provisional governors over these States, whose first duty should be to enroll the white citizens, through duly appointed United States marshals. Then when a majority of these citizens should have taken the oath of allegiance, they should be permitted to hold a State convention for the purpose of forming a constitution under which the government might be re-established. But all Confederate office-holders and those voluntarily bearing arms against the United States were to be ineligible as delegates to the convention. The bill further provided that the constitution should “repudiate the rebel debt, abolish slavery, and prohibit the higher military and civil officers from voting for or serving as governors or members of the legislature.” When these conditions should have been fulfilled, and the assent of Congress to the recognition of the new government obtained, the President should be notified, and should then officially recognize the government by proclamation, after which senators and representatives would be admitted to Congress.[29]
In the speech mentioned above, Mr. Davis claimed that “the bill challenges the support of all who consider slavery the cause of the rebellion, and that in it the embers of rebellion will always smoulder; of those who think that freedom and permanent peace are inseparable, and who are determined, so far as their constitutional authority will allow them, to secure these fruits by adequate legislation.”
