The idea of a new
electorate as the
basis and condition
of Reconstruction.
A few weeks later Congress scored another victory over the President, one which did much toward wiping out the defeats of February 19th and
The Freedmen's
Bureau Act of
July 16th, 1866.
The President could not, however, see much difference between them. He claimed that his objections to the first bill were valid against the
The veto of
the measure.
From the point of view of to-day it is difficult to see why the President was not right. There is no doubt that the Freedmen's Bureau
Correctness of the
President's views.
The veto of the bill was dated July 16th, and the two Houses repassed it over the veto on the same day. The new law was to be executed