At the moment of Grant's accession to power, four of the Southern communities were still denied recognition as "States" upon the floor of
The situation at the
moment of Grant's
accession to power.
When the news of this procedure reached Washington, the Senate held back from admitting the Senators-elect from Georgia to seats and did
The Georgia
question.
In his inaugural Address the new President made no reference to these questions, but he had hardly been one month in the presidential office
The attitude of the
new President toward
Reconstruction.
The President also suggested that the constitution framed by the convention in Mississippi and rejected by the voters might be resubmitted in the same way. The events in Mississippi culminating in the rejection of the proposed State constitution by the voters in June of 1868 have been already related.