...that " no legal State government, or adequate protection for life or property, now exists in the Rebel States of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina,...Alabama, Louisiana, Florida, Texas, and Arkansas," and that " it is necessary that peace and good order should be enforced in said States until loyal...

...We copy the preamble : "Whereas, The pretended State Governments of the late so-called Confederate States of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina,...Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Florida, Texas and Arkansas, were set up without the authority of Congress, and therefore are of no constitutional validity ; and...

...defiance of the Constitution, and against the veto of the President, Congress, in March, 1S67, placed the States of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina,...Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Florida, Texas, and Arkansas under military rule, reducing them to the condition of subject provinces, opening the way to misgovernment...

...supplementary thereto, passed on the 23d day of March, 1867, that the governments then existing in the rebel States of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina,...Alabama, Louisiana, Florida, Texas, and Arkansas, were not legal State governments; and that thereafter said governments, if continued, were to be continued...

...the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, that the governments then existing in the rebel States of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina,...Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Florida, Texas, and Arkansas were not legal State governments, and that thereafter said governments, if continued, were to be continued...

...Whereas no legal State governments or adequate protection for life or property now exists in the rebel States of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina,...Alabama, Louisiana, Florida, Texas, and Arkansas; and whereas it is necessary that peace and good order should be enforced in said States until loyal...

...after alleging that no legal state governments or adequate protection for life and property existed in the states of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina,...Alabama, Louisiana, Florida, Texas, and Arkansas, provided that these states should be divided into five military districts, under the command of officers...

...after alleging that no legal state governments or adequate protection for life and property existed in the states of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina,...Alabama, Louisiana, Florida, Texas, and Arkansas, provided that these states should be divided into five military districts, under the command of officers...

...declared to be illegal, and new Constitutions and governments were authorized to be established in the States of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina,...Alabama, Louisiana, Florida, Texas, and Arkansas, provided that the Conventions called under those acts should be elected by the male citizens of those...

...Whereas, no legal State governments or adequate protection for life or property now exist in the rebel States of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina,...Alabama, Louisiana, Florida, Texas, and Arkansas; and whereas, it is necessary that peace and good order should be enforced in said States until loyal...