Belief 6 - Reading 9 of 14, The Reconstruction Convention

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THE SOUTH

Harper's Weekly, September 9, 1865, page 563 (Domestic Intelligence)

The State of Mississippi takes the lead in the work of self-reconstruction. On the 22d of August the Convention convened by the call of Governor Sharkey passed an ordinance repealing the ordinance of secession. The laws passed by the rebel Legislature, except in so far as they conflicted with the United States Constitution, were reaffirmed and declared valid. On the 24^th Governor Sharkey transmitted to the Convention a telegraphic dispatch received by him from President Johnson, congratulating the Convention on the progress made by it in paving the way for the readmission of Mississippi into the Union, and declaring the President’s resolution to re-establish the habeas corpus, and to withdraw the soldiers from the State as soon as the evident loyalty of the State would permit—also his hope that other States might rapidly follow the example set by Mississippi. The same day the Convention adjourned, having nominated Judge E.S. Fisher for Governor in the forthcoming election, and approved of a memorial to President Johnson petitioning him to grant pardon to Jeff Davis.

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