Reorganizing the Restored State Right of Commonwealth to Representation in Congress Rupture between Civil and Military Authorities Congress Refuses to Admit a Senator-Elect Attitude of Border States on Slavery Lincoln Resolves to Emancipate Slaves by Proclamation RISE OF THE CONGRESSIONAL PLAN Bill to Guarantee a Republican Form of Government Henry Winter Davis on Reconstruction . House Debates on Bill of Wade and Davis VIII President ignores Controversy with Congress. Summary of Military and Naval Situation Attempt to Revive the Pocketed Bill Resolution excluding Electoral Votes of Rebellious States. 314 Amendment of Senator Ten Eyck. Senate Debate on Ten Eyck's Amendment The President's Message Congressmen from Louisiana at the National Capital Proposal to Recognize Louisiana Powell's Speech opposing Recognition Volunteer Diplomats M Preface UCH of the material included in this volume was collected several years ago while the author was a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania. The researches then commenced probably first suggested to him the lack in our political literature of an ample and interesting account of the return of the States. Students, librarians, and even professors of history knew no adequate treatise on the era of reconstruction, and their testimony was confirmed by the authority of Mr. Bryce, who happily describes the succession of events in those crowded times as forming one of the most intricate chapters of American history. No apology is offered, therefore, for considering in this essay so important and so long-neglected a theme as the rise of the political revolution that occurred before reunion was finally accomplished. On the general subject several excellent monographs have recently appeared; these, however, are nearly all employed in discussing the second stage in the process of restoration, and, except incidentally, anticipate scarcely anything of value in the present work, which, so far at least as concerns any logical exposition, con |