...provided, — "That, until the people of said Rebel States shall be BY LAW admitted to representation in the Congress of the United States, any civil governments...time to abolish, modify, control, or supersede the same."1 Nothing can be more explicit. Until the people of the Rebel States are " by law " admitted...

...Convention. See. 6. That until the people of said Rebel States shall be by law admitted to representation in the Congress of the United States, any civil governments...States at any time to abolish, modify, control, or supercede the same; and in all elections to any office under such Provisional Governments all persons...

...State shall be by law admitted to representation in Congress, any civil government which may exist shall be deemed provisional only, and in all respects...States, at any time, to abolish, modify, control, or supercede the same." Thus, were provided the manner and terms of the readmissson of the Commonwealth...

...shall be by law admitted to representation in the Congress of the United States, any civil government which may exist therein shall be deemed provisional...subject to the paramount authority of the United States. Over the new state government, as over the old, Meade would exercise the powers of a district commander...

...sentences should require the approval of the President. The existing state governments were to be deemed as provisional only, and in all respects subject to the...authority of the United States at any time to "abolish, control, modify, or supersede the same." The right of suffrage was conferred upon the freedmeu, and...

...the civil government which authorized its formation was permitted to continue under it, provisionally only, and in all respects subject to the paramount authority of the United State's at any time to abolish, modify, or supersede. Though the bill for the admission of West Virginia...

...civil government which might exist in these districts should be regarded as provisional, and should be in all respects subject to the paramount authority of the United States, which should control, and might abolish, modify, or supersede the same, and that the voters for the...

...furthermore provided, that " until the people of said rebel states shall be by law admitted to representation in the congress of the United States, any civil governments...abolish, modify, control, or supersede the same." Such was this extraordinary act. This act erected in each of the ten states a vice-royal rule outside...

...representation in Congress. 6. Until thus reconstructed, the civil governments of the rebel States were to be "deemed provisional only, and in all respects subject...control, or supersede the same"; and, "in all elections under such provisional governments," the only voters or officeholders were to be those entitled by...

...of Pope, Sheridan, and possibly of Sickles. Existing civil governments in the Southern States were "deemed provisional only and in all respects subject...to abolish, modify, control or supersede the same." This recognized these existing governments, but it rendered them provisional. There could be no question...