[101] Congressional Globe, 1st Session, 39th Congress, pp. 39, 40.
[102] Congressional Globe, 39th Congress, 1st Session; McPherson, History of the Reconstruction, pp. 75-8.
[103] Congressional Globe, 39th Congress, 1st Session, pp. 1679-81; McPherson, History of Reconstruction, pp. 75-8.
[104] Senate Journal, 39th Congress, 1st Session, pp. 431-2; McPherson, History of the Reconstruction, pp. 82-3; Blaine, Twenty Years of Congress, ii, 275-80.
[105] McPherson, History of the Reconstruction, 81-2; Congressional Globe, 39th Congress, 1st Session, 2609.
[106] McPherson, 160-164.
[107] McPherson, History of the Reconstruction, pp. 164-6; Congressional Globe, 39th Congress, 1st Session.
[108] Hurd, in his Theory of our National Existence, p. 42, says that this report of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction “as being the most authoritative declaration of principles supposed to have been afterwards carried out in political action, is a document which, either for good or evil, will probably be regarded as one of the most important in the history of this country.”
[109] For an extended discussion of the constitutional views of the members of the committee, see Hurd’s Theory, etc., pp. 224 ff.
[110] House Reports, No. 30, 39th Congress, 1st Session. McPherson, History of Reconstruction, pp. 84-93.