[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.