The case of Virginia, on the other hand, which differed in several material respects from that of any of the others, has not been as yet
The Virginia case.
For more than a year, however, this government continued to act as the "State" government of Virginia, under the limitations placed upon it by the presence of the military of the United States, and the interference of the commanding general in behalf of the freedmen. On January 15th,
The Vagrant Act.
General Terry's
order setting
aside the
Vagrant Act.
Congress, however, gave this legislature one more opportunity to redeem itself. The proposed Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States was submitted to it for ratification in June of 1866. After long deliberation upon it, the legislature rejected it on the 9th of January, 1867. This act sealed the fate of that legislature. Virginia was brought, with the other Southern communities which had rejected or not adopted the proposed Amendment, under the Reconstruction Acts of March, 1867, and became the first military
Virginia made a
Military District.
It was in consequence of such representations and prayers, that President Grant sent his message of April 7th to Congress, requesting
Grant's message to
Congress of April
7th, 1869, and
his proclamation
of May 14th.