If Georgia is a State in the Union her people feel that she is entitled to representation without conditions imposed by Congress; and if she is not a State in the Union then she could not be admitted as an equal with the others if her admission were trammeled with conditions that did not apply to all the rest alike.
Boutwell discusses the implications of state representation in the context of Georgia's status during Reconstruction.
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