They nominated former New York governor Horatio Seymour and ran him on a platform calling for the “immediate restoration of all States to their rights in the Union under the Constitution,” amnesty for all former Confederates, and “the regulation of the elective franchise in the States by their citizens.” In South Carolina the legislature caused the total cost of 6 years of Reconstruction to total $2,339,000, (when the average cost of a pre-Reconstruction session of the legislature had been $20,000/year!). There is no provision of the constitution that allows the federal government to mass disenfranchise the voters....nor to tell states they are "out" and must agree to certain conditions set by representatives of other states to have their rights under the constitution restored.
Author: Front Page Magazine
Published at: 2025-06-03 21:20:50
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