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was so entirely uncertain in its meaning that it would prove a most terrible means of oppression in the hands of the military officers and their appointed agents, and declared he could never approve of an election law whose plain and manifest purpose was to disfranchise the great body of respectable white people, and create a new electorate on the basis of universal negro suffrage. He contended that the existing constitutions of the ten
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States to be re-reconstructed conformed to the long-established standards of loyalty and Republicanism, and that the new test of these qualities now set up by Congress, viz., universal negro suffrage, was a gross exaggeration, and would make many of the Northern
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States themselves unrepublican. The President did not expressly say that this bill was unconstitutional, but he quite distinctly implied it. In this, however, he was wrong, unless his doctrine that the rebellious {133} communities remained
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States of the Union throughout the rebellion, or had been reconstructed by his plan, was true, that is, unless these communities were
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States
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State against the Constitution and laws of the United States is the loss of the
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State form of local government, and brings the territory and population of the former
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