. The political history of the United States : or, popular sovereignty and citizenship; birth and growth of the colonies; march to independence; constitutional government; presidents and administrations; congresses and political measures; party platforms and principles; rise and fall of parties. Questions of the hour-civil service reform, polygamy, prohibition, surplus revenue, tariff and free trade, arguments for and against, review of tariff acts. ELIHU B. 30 GEORGE S. BOUTWELL. 465 4gg POLITICAL HISTORY OF tive States passed back into the hands of those who had made,supported an
. The political history of the United States : or, popular sovereignty and citizenship; birth and growth of the colonies; march to independence; constitutional government; presidents and administrations; congresses and political measures; party platforms and principles; rise and fall of parties. Questions of the hour-civil service reform, polygamy, prohibition, surplus revenue, tariff and free trade, arguments for and against, review of tariff acts. ELIHU B. 30 GEORGE S. BOUTWELL. 465 4gg POLITICAL HISTORY OF tive States passed back into the hands of those who had made,supported and controlled them before the rebellion. The operations of the Ku-Klux-Klan had not only beenlocally violent, but defiant of the Reconstruction acts of Con-gress. Hence the President found his authority practically ig-nored. All the time, too, questions arose as to the constitution-ality of the Reconstruction acts. These occasioned delays andinvited dangers. In the latter part of 1869 the SupremeCourt came to his assistance and greatly strengthened his handsby a decision to the effect that Congress had the power to re-establish the relations of any rebellious State to the decision sustaining the policy of Congress and the Republi-can majority modified the tone of the Democrats, and in a greatmeasure changed their purpose to make Reconstruction a centralparty feature. The above situation gave rise to the Enforcement act, passedMay 31, 1870, by a party v
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