02/20/1867
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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."
"They apply equally well to the bill now before me, and I am content merely to refer to them and to reiterate my conviction that they are sound and unanswerable."
"For reasons heretofore stated in my several veto messages to Congress upon the subject of reconstruction, I return without my approval the 'Joint resolution to carry into effect the several acts provi..."
"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..."