What is the main goal of this proclamation? to return voting rights to the people in former
Confederate states.
to get at least 10 percent of the population in each
state to swear allegiance by oath
to reestablish state governments and reunite the
country
And I do further proclaim, declare, and make known that
whenever, in any of the States of Arkansas, Texas,
Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia,
Florida, South Carolina, and North Carolina, a number of
persons, not less than one tenth in number of the votes
cast in such state at the presidential election of the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty, each
having taken the oath aforesaid, and not having since
violated it, and being a qualified voter by the election law
of the state existing immediately before the so-called act
of secession, and excluding all others, shall reëstablish a
state government which shall be republican, and in
nowise contravening said oath, such shall be recognized
as the true government of the state, and the state shall
receive thereunder the benefits of the constitutional
provision which declares that the United States shall
guaranty to every state in this Union a republican form of
government, and shall protect each of them against
O to bring former Confederate states under
Republican control
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