The Tennessee
precedent.
The President signed the resolution, but accompanied the same with a short message in which he made a rather telling criticism upon the
The President's message in
regard to the rehabilitation
of Tennessee.
CHAPTER VI
THE CONGRESSIONAL PLAN (Continued)
[The Reports of the Committee on Reconstruction]—[The Idea of a New Electorate as the Basis and Condition of Reconstruction]—[The Freedmen's Bureau Act of July 16th, 1866]—[The Disaffection in the Cabinet]—[The New Orleans Riot]—[The Issue of Reconstruction in the Campaign of 1866]—[The Congressional Election of 1866]—[The President's Final Proclamation Declaring the Civil War Ended—The October Elections]—[The President's Message of December 3d, 1866]—[Rejection of the Proposed Fourteenth Amendment by the Legislatures of the Reconstructed "States."]
Two days after the transmission of the Fourteenth Amendment to the "State" legislatures, the Joint Committee of Congress on