The Constitutional History of the United States, Volume 3

Francis Newton Thorpe

Callaghan, 1901 - United States

Contents

• CHAPTER I: 1
• The Issue Stated: 10
• Not a War Against Slavery: 16
• Gradual Emancipation Projected: 22
• West Virginia 2833: 28
• Compensatory Emancipation 34 50 51: 34
• The Emancipation Proclamation: 38
• Meaning of Abolition: 44
• Missouri Rejects Compensatory Emancipation: 51
• Missouri Iowa and Illinois Compared: 57
• Congress Must Help: 63
• CHAPTER II: 69
• Arkansas Abolishes Slavery: 75
• Reconstruction in Louisiana: 81
• Excitement and Disorder: 94
• A Slaveholders Plea for Abolition: 107
• Question of Loyalty: 120
• EMANCIPATION DISCUSSED IN CONGRESS IN THE FORM: 126
• John B Henderson: 134
• Wheeler of Wisconsin: 140
• National Protection: 146
• The Hampton Road Conference: 152
• Ratification by the States 158161: 158
• His Message 164165: 164
• Hostility to Negro Schools: 169
• Abolition Conditional: 175
• Untimely Conditions: 181
• The North and the Negro: 187
• The Right of Secession: 193
• Action On the Amendment by Alabama: 199
• The Suffrage in South Carolina: 205
• The State Debt: 211
• Georgia: 213
• The Two Races: 219
• 1865: 226
• A Suffrage Amendment Proposed: 232
• Racial Hostility: 238
• The Presidents Veto 244247: 244
• The Nebraska Act: 251
• The Debate 257: 257
• Question of Disqualification: 259
• Senator Howards Substitute: 265
• A Test Vote: 271
• It Goes to the People: 277
• The Policy of Restoration: 285
• The South Not Entitled to Representation: 291
• Objectionable Clauses: 297
• Progress of Ratification North 303: 303
• North Carolina Rejects: 316
• The Supplementary Act: 329
• Alabama Takes Up the Amendment: 342
• Hostility to Congress: 355
• Justice to the Negro: 357
• Paramount Allegiance: 363
• Resentment of the Delegates: 369
• Faction and Disruption of the Convention: 375
• Persecution of Negroes: 381
• Reconstruction Completed: 387
• The Veto: 393
• New Jersey Repeals: 398
• The Fourteenth Amendment a Disappointment: 405
• Political Changes: 412
• The Amendment in the Senate: 420
• Charles Sumner 426: 426
• Various Objections: 433
• Failure of the Amendment: 439
• The Howard Substitute: 442
• The KuKluxKlan: 448
• Ratifications by the States: 454
• Atrocities in the South: 460
• The Virginia Plan: 466
• Qualifications of Representatives: 472
• The VicePresident: 478
• Money Bills: 484
• Limitations of Congress: 491
• Choosing the President: 494
• Tenure of Office: 501
• Signers of the Constitution: 507
• The Fourteenth Amendment 513: 513
• The Term Nation: 519
• The Government and the Individual: 526
• Treasury Notes: 535
• Political Effects of IncomeTax Decision 548: 548
• Limitation of the States 492: 594
• Index to the Entire Work p 551718: 718

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Constitutional History of the United States, Volume 3; The Constitutional History of the United States, Francis Newton Thorpe
• Author: Francis Newton Thorpe
• Publisher: Callaghan, 1901