...representation in the congress of the United States, any civil government which may exist therein shall be deemed provisional only, and in all respects subject...to abolish, modify, control or supersede the same." President Johnson called the act, "in substance a declaration of war against ten States of the Union...

...civil governments already existing within them, though illegal, were to be permitted to stand; but as "provisional only, and in all respects subject to...authority of the United States at any time to abolish, control, or supersede the same." Such was the process which was rigorously and consistently carried...

...Act of Congress of March 2nd, 1867, declared that the civil government was provisional only, and was in all respects subject "to the paramount authority...the United States, at any time to abolish, modify, continue or suspend the same."1 On March 23rd, 1867, an act was passed by Congress providing for an...

...by law admitted to representation in Congress, any civil government which may exist therein shall be deemed provisional only, and in all respects subject...to abolish, modify, control or supersede the same." On the 6th of April, 1868, the civil government that had been conducted by Governor Pierpont from April,...

...the JJnited States, any civil governments which may exist therein shall be deemed prnvi'jjo.ml nnly, and in all respects subject to the paramount authority...to abolish, modify, control, or supersede the same; and in all elections to any office under such provisional governments all persons shall be entitled...

...governments already existing within them, though illegal, were to be permitted to stand ; but as " provisional only, and in all respects subject to the...authority of the United States at any time to abolish, control, or supersede the same." Such was the process which was rigorously and consistently carried...

...representation in the Congress of the United States, any civil governments which may exist therein shall be deemed provisional only, and in all respects subject...to abolish, modify, control, or supersede the same ; and in all elections to any office under such provisional governments all persons shall be entitled...

...so admitted any civil governments which might exist in them should be deemed provisional only, and subject to the paramount authority of the United States,...any time to abolish, modify, control, or supersede them. A State convention of 1866 passed an ordinance looking to the recovery of these bonds ; and by...

...principle to all officeholding and declared that prior to readmission any civil governments should be deemed "provisional only, and in all respects subject...to abolish, modify, control, or supersede the same. . . ." The bill, with the Sherman, Wilson, and Shellabarger amendments, passed the House by a vote...

...keep the peace and punish offenders and declared that "any civil governments" in those states were "provisional only, and in all respects subject to the paramount authority of the United States." Id. § 6, 14 Stat. at 429. Tennessee, which was safely in Republican hands and had ratified the fourteenth...