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States of the Union, but the result of the elections held in Mississippi were not known in Washington. The President simply expressed the hope that the constitutions submitted in these communities to the voters would be ratified, and
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As we have seen, the elections resulted as the President hoped, and these communities were restored, on the basis of the
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The situation was briefly as follows: The Senators and Representatives from Georgia had been refused admission to seats in Congress at the first session of the Forty-first Congress which convened the 4th of March, 1869, because the legislature of Georgia had expelled the colored men elected to that body as ineligible, and had rejected the proposed Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. It is true that the Senators from Georgia had been elected by the legislature before the colored members were expelled, and that the Representatives had been admitted to seats in the House during the last session of the Fortieth Congress, and that the ostensible reason for not admitting the members to the lower House of the Forty-first Congress was that they had not been elected to the Forty-first Congress. However, Georgia had no representation in either House of Congress at the date of President Grant's first annual Message in December of 1869. {236} Her
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