Resolved, That, notwithstanding the foregoing resolution, yet, considering the great public interest which attaches to this question, the Legislatures which have not ratified the Amendment be permitted to express their concurrence by the usual form of ratification, to be returned in the usual manner.
Resolved, That no one of the States, to the Legislatures of which such Amendment could not be submitted, by reason of rebellion against the United States and having no Legislatures, be permitted to resume its relations, and have its Legislature acknowledged and its Senators and Representatives admitted, until its Legislature has first ratified such Amendment in recognition of the accomplished fact.
These resolutions were read and ordered to be printed. They were also entered at length on the Journal of the Senate.
FIVE CONDITIONS OF RECONSTRUCTION.
Resolutions in respect to Guaranties of the National Security and the National Faith, December 4, 1865.
Resolutions declaring the duty of Congress in respect to guaranties of the national security and the national faith in the Rebel States.