Essays On the Civil War And Reconstruction And Related Topics
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729. 120 THE CONSTITUTION OF THE promptly declared Tennessee restored to the Union. In the preamble to the resolution restor- ing the state, the ground of the act was explained in accordance with the theory that Congress had adopted. The conditions considered necessary, it was stated, had been fulfilled, and, moreover, acts "proclaiming and denoting loyalty" had been performed by the new state government. These acts, not named in the law, were in fact the disfranchisement of all partisans of th...e Confederacy and various steps looking to negro suffrage. It was to the attainment of these ends — dis- franchisement and enfranchisement, in some de- gree — that a steadily growing sentiment had been directed from the beginning. Scruples as to the constitutionality of any interference by Con- gress with the hitherto sacred right of a state to regulate the qualifications for voting within its boundaries, had alone prevented the requirement of negro suffrage, at least, as a condition of restora- tion.
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