Civil Government In The United States And In The State Of Texas

Author : Andrew Jackson Hamilton
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333650483
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book Statement and Memorial in Relation to Political Affairs in Texas written by Andrew Jackson Hamilton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-17 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Statement and Memorial in Relation to Political Affairs in Texas: By Members of the Late Convention, and Other Citizens of That State, Addressed to the Hon. B. F. Butler, Chairman of the Reconstruction Committee In the meantime differences of opinion had been developed among Republicans, the nature of which the undersigned beg leave as brie y as possible to state. The State government of Texas had been organized in 1866, in accordance with the provisions of the constitution framed by the convention called by the provisional governor in that year. It was assumed by a few Republieans, that after the passage of the act for the more efficient government of the rebel States, on the 2d of March, 1867, no civil government of any kind existed in the State of Texas; that the declaration in the preamble to' the act of the 2d of March, that no legal State government now exists in the rebel State of Texas, was intended utterly to destroy the whole machinery of the civil government of which Mr. Throckmorton was the head, and must be so understood; and that the declaration in the 6th section of said act, that any civil governments which may exist in the rebel States named in the act shall be deemed provisional only, had reference to governments that might afterwards be framed by conventions, and not to the governments existing at the time of the passage of the act. We will say here, in passing, that the undersigned have never been able to assent to the correct ness of these views. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."