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Title: A picture of the desolated states; and the work of restoration. 1865-1868
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: Trowbridge, J. T. (John Townsend), 1827-1916
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 Colfax, Schuyler, 1823-1885 Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) Southern States -- Description and travel United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Anecdotes
Publisher: Hartford, Conn., L. Stebbins
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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now addresses you, theineffable conceit which on every occasion rehearsed the factthat he had filled every station from alderman of a smallcountry village to his present exalted station, the gravitywith which he stated at every railway station that he * leftthe Constitution of the United States, and the flag with thirty-six stars in their hands, became at last so intolerably weari-some, that nobody could wade through the mass of dullness. The elections of the autumn of 1866, which immediatelysucceeded this tour, proved most conclusively the growing dis-gust of the ))eople for the man who occupied the presidentialchair. The Thirty-ninth Congress had been strongly Repub-lican ; the Fortieth was overwhelmingly so ; and whereverJohnson had addressed the public, there the Republican ma- • • • jontics were unprecedented. The reconstruction measureswhich Congress had adopted, were sanctioned by the people,and others of a more decided character completing the work,were urged upon them.
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THE DESOLATED STATES. 605 CHAPTER LXXXIII. RECONSTRUCTION. Condition of the Republican and Democratic Parties in Congress in December, 18GG. — The District of Cohimbia Elective Franchise Bill passed: Its Provisions.—Mr. Johnson vetoes it, but it is passed over the Veto. — Territorial Franchise P>illpassed. — Admission of Nebraska as a State, with the fllective Franchise Proviso. — Difficulties in Maturing satisfactorily the Reconstruction Act. — The Provisionsof the House Bill. — It is materially changed in the Senate. — Further Modifica-tion in the House Provisions of the Bill as finallj passed. — Necessity for theTenure of Office Act: Its Provisions.—Effect of the Passage of the District ofColumbia Franchise Bill on Tennessee. —Decision of the Supreme Court of Ten-nessee.— The First Supplementary Reconstruction Act of the Fortieth Congress. — It is vetoed, and re-passed: Its Provisions. — Arrangement for the Call of aSummer Session. — Mr. Stanberys E

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