Reconstruction Claims of the Inhabitants of the States Engaged in the Rebellion
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And by what authority did he order the soldiery of the United States to aid and assist the murderer Monroe, in putting down an assembly of loyal citizens of New Orleans, if the State of Louisiana is under a regu- larly constituted State government'? Can he, or would he dare to, order the troops of the United States, to- come to the help of the city police in any loyal State, unless on application by the State Gov- ernment 1 Any right of such interference is prohib- ited by the Constitution. And..., if the President were to be impeached for this interposition of military force in New Orleans, the only justification he could set up would be, that the State had no civil govern- ment, but one in subordination to his military author- ity as commander-in-chief, and that the interposition was necessary for the preservation of good order. STATES UNDER THE CONSTITUTION. 37 Considering, then, the proposition established, that the inhabitants of the disloyal States, by their rebel- lion and open war against the United States, had abandoned, lost, or forfeited all civil and political rights under the Constitution, including those of rep- resentation in Congress, the next inquiry is when and in what manner such rights might revert or be re- stored to them.
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