In the first place, the machinery for administering the cleansing oath was made very simple and accessible. Any commissioned officer, civil,
The realization of it.
The administering
of the oath.
In the second place, and by a second proclamation, issued on the same day, May 29th, the President appointed a Provisional Governor for North
Reconstruction in
North Carolina.
This second proclamation also commanded the heads of the departments of the United States Government to put the laws of the United States into operation in North Carolina, the United States judges to open the United States courts and proceed to business, and the military officers in the district to aid the Provisional Governor in carrying the duties assigned to him into effect, and to abstain from hindering, impeding, or discouraging, in any manner, the organization of a "State" government as authorized by the proclamation.
It will thus be seen that Mr. Johnson's plan of Reconstruction was in substance the same as that of Mr. Lincoln. It rested upon the theory of
The identity
of Johnson's
plan with that
of Lincoln.