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In dfw.general fgoodwin <fgoodwin@yahoo.com> wrote:
: Congressional Reconstruction ends as Texas readmitted to Union
: 
: http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/daybyday/03-30-004.html
: 
: On this day in 1870, U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant signed the act
: that ended Congressional Reconstruction and readmitted Texas to the
: Union.
: 
: In the aftermath of the Civil War, Texas had been in turmoil, first
: under Presidential Reconstruction and then, beginning in 1867 with the
: passage of the First Reconstruction Act, under Congressional
: Reconstruction. The latter required that Texas have a constitutional
: convention, with delegates elected by all male citizens over the age of
: twenty-one, regardless of race, color, or "previous condition of
: servitude."
: 
: The convention was to write a new state constitution that would provide
: for universal adult male suffrage. When the constitution had been
: written and the state had ratified the Fourteenth Amendment of the
: United States Constitution, Congress would consider the case for
: readmission to the Union.
: 
: The convention met at Austin in June 1868 and did not adjourn until
: February 1869. The constitution it produced differed significantly from
: previous constitutions by authorizing a more centralized and
: bureaucratized system of government, with greater power in the hands of
: the governor.
: 
: In February 1870 the Twelfth Legislature assembled at Austin to adopt
: the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments and select United States
: senators in preparation for readmission to the Union. They quickly
: approved the amendments and selected Morgan C. Hamilton for a six-year
: term and James W. Flanagan for a four-year term.
: 
: This completed the requirements set by Congress for readmission.

Of course, they then promptly ditched that constitution and
replaced it with the one now in place.

Still, a good timely post. Thanks.