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