[26] Ante, p. 14.
[27] Post, pp. 136, seqq.
[28] Letters from New Orleans, October, 1865: Nation, October 26, 1865, Vol. I. pp. 523, 524.
[29] He had already united with President Johnson in his “policy.”
[30] Act to establish and regulate the Domestic Relations of Persons of Color, etc., Sec. XVII. [Approved December 21, 1865.]
[31] Ibid., Sections L., LII., LIII.
[32] Later evidence showed that this hope was without foundation.
[33] Senate Journal, 1865-66, p. 151.
[34] Code of Tennessee, § 3808.
[35] Statutes at Large, Vol. XIV. p. 50.