The Struggle between President Johnson and Congress over Reconstruction

by Charles E. Chadsey

[121] House Reports, No. 30, pt. 1; McPherson, History of the Reconstruction, pp. 105-6.

[122] Ratified by the Senate July 11, yeas, 15, nays, 6; by the House July 12, yeas, 43, nays, 11. Tennessee was the third State to ratify the amendment, Connecticut and New Hampshire being the first two.

[123] McPherson, History of the Reconstruction, pp. 151-4.

[124] Blaine, Twenty Years of Congress, ii, 219-220.

[125] The Congressional committee of investigation, appointed at the beginning of the 2d session, in December, submitted a detailed report of the riots. See House Reports, No. 16, 2d Session, 39th Congress. See also Blaine, Twenty Years of Congress, ii, 233-237.

[126] House Reports, No. 16, 39th Congress, 2d Session, p. 26.

[127] See below for an account of this canvass.

[128] House Reports, No. 16, 39th Congress, 2d Session, pp. 24-27; McPherson, History of the Reconstruction, 137.

[129] McPherson, History of the Reconstruction, 118, 119; Blaine, Twenty Years of Congress, ii, 220-223.

[130] Among these Republicans were Thurlow Weed, Edgar Cowan, James R. Doolittle, A. W. Randall, O. H. Browning, James Dixon, Henry J. Raymond, R. S. Hale, J. A. Dix, Marshall O. Roberts and Montgomery Blair.