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Previous Legislative Experience of United States Senators by Agnes Wallace Smith, 1912

Previous Legislative Experience of United States Senators by Agnes Wallace Smith, 1912, Page 173

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171 reconstruction measures of the period. He considered them illegal. His sympathy for the southerners is seen in his opposition to the establishment of the Freedman's Bureau, to the civil rights bill and in presenting the following as an amendment to the constitution: No negro or person whose mother or grandmother is a negro shall be a citizen of the United States or be eligible to any civil or military office or to any place of trust or profit under the United States." Mr. Buckalew was one of the nineteen men who voted against the impeachment of President Johnson and one of the twenty nine to file opinions regarding it. "In my opinion the acquittal of the president upon all charges preferred against him is authorized by law and demanded by
 
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