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

...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...

...Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolin slppi, Alabama, Louisiana, Florida, Texas, and Arkansas; and wbei that peace and good order should be enforced in said States until in; State governments can be legally established : Therefore Be it enacted, etc., That said rebel States...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...no adequate protection for life or property, but countenance and encourage lawlessness and crime ; and whereas it is necessary that peace and good order should be enforced in said so-called Confederate States, until loyal State governments can be legally established ; therefore...

...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 gress, presented to that body March 25, 1867. MePherson's History...

...rebel States. Whereas, no legal State governments or adequate protection for life or property now exist in the rebel States of Virginia, North Carolina, South...governments can be legally established; therefore, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress...

...rebel States. Whereas, no legal State governments or adequate protection for life or property now exist in the rebel States of Virginia, North Carolina, South...governments can be legally established; therefore, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress...