THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT
The Joint Committee on Reconstruction reports the Fourteenth
Amendment of the Constitution--It holds that the seceding states
cannot be restored to their former places in the Union by the
executive alone--Tennessee admitted to the Union by
Congress--The Arm-in-Arm Convention at Philadelphia--President
Johnson's unfortunate speech following that event--The Southern
States refuse to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment--This refusal
gives increased power to the radicals in the North 281