human
States whenever the conditions warranting the same should have been attained. The phantom of the
gpt
had too strong an influence over the minds of all at that moment to admit of such a solution of the question. But after the experiences of 1865 and 1866, and the discussions in the last session of the Thirty-ninth Congress, the minds of the Republicans at least, both in and out of Congress, were prepared to break away from the influence of this idea and to view the process of Reconstruction as nothing but the admission of new
human
States into the Union, new
gpt
States founded on territory and including inhabitants that had indeed once formed
human
States,