12/11/1867
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"The inevitable result is that the Federal Government, by the agency of its own sworn officers, in effect assumes the civil government of the State."
"Within a period less than a year the legislation of Congress has attempted to strip the executive department of the Government of some of its essential powers."
"It is impossible to conceive any state of society more intolerable than this; and yet it is to this condition that 12,000,000 American citizens are reduced by the Congress of the United States."
"I return herewith the bill entitled 'An act supplementary to an act entitled 'An act to provide for the more efficient government of the rebel States,' passed on the 2d day of March, 1867, and the act..."