POLITICAL MANUAL FOR 1868, INCLUDING A CLASSIFIED SUMMARY OF THE IMPORTANT EXECUTIVE, LEGISLATIVE, POLITICO-MILITARY, AND 1 V GENERAL FACTS OF THE PERIOD, From April 1, 1867, to July 15, 1868. BY EDWARD MCPHERSON, LL.D., CLERK OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES. WASHINGTON CITY: 1868. 1 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia. of L.B. Evans lebiary of 5.4 3-29-31 PREFACE. IZJ1ZT TAT Those who have seen the POLITICAL MANUALS of 1866 and 1867 will un#IGIE10 IXX it erstand the scope of this volume, when told that, upon the same plan i ontinues the record from the date at which the latter Manual closed, April 1867, to July 15, 1868. This period has witnessed the complete developent of the Congressional Plan of Reconstruction and the Restoration of veral States under it. All the Votes, Acts, Orders, and Papers connected herewith will be found gathered and appropriately classified. مقدر The volume contains an abstract of the various new Constitutions and of e Orders of the Commanders of the several Military Districts; the Votes in ongress, State Legislatures, and at the polls on the various topies which ave arisen; also the action of President Johnson, his Proclamations and rders, the attempted Impeachment by the House of Representatives, with the rticles, the Answer of the President, and the Judgment of the Senate; and Opious Tables, on Revenue and Taxation, Estimates and Appropriations, anks, Debt, Elections, &c. G In it will also be found General Grant's Political Record, including a full opy of his Testimony, before the Judiciary Committee, on Reconstruction; is Correspondence with President Johnson on various subjects; his Politicolilitary Orders, and his relations to Reconstruction. The usual lists of the abinet and Congress; the Votes on Political Bills and Resolutions; the Naonal Platforms of 1852, 1856, 1860, 1864, and 1868, with the Letters of cceptance of the Candidates of the two great parties; and a chapter of General Political Miscellany, will, it is hoped, furnish every important politial fact which fairly enters into the great political struggle before the ountry. *། ..... 1 WASHINGTON, D. C., July 15, 1868. wind ad eft |