The Struggle between President Johnson and Congress over Reconstruction

by Charles E. Chadsey

[111] Gillet, Democracy in the United States, pp. 318-20.

[112] Congressional Globe, 1st Session, 39th Congress, pp. 9, 10, 351.

[113] Ibid., 141-2, 232. For general discussions and summaries of the debates on the 14th Amendment, see Wilson, Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America, iii, 647-660; Wilson, History of Reconstruction, 218-266; Blaine, Twenty Years of Congress, ii, 193-214.

[114] The vote was: yeas, 120; nays, 46.

[115] Congressional Globe, 39th Congress, 1st Session, p. 2459.

[116] Yeas, 128, nays, 37.

[117] On May 29, Congressional Globe, 39th Congress, 1st Session, p. 2869.

[118] See Pollard’s Lost Cause Regained, p. 74.

[119] Senate Journal, 39th Congress, 1st Session, p. 502.

[120] On the reorganization of Tennessee, see Blaine, Twenty Years of Congress, ii, 50-52, 214-17; Cox, Three Decades of Federal Legislation.