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Domestic Intelligence
Harper's Weekly, August 31, 1867, page 547

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Southern Reconstruction
General Sheridan was removed from the command of the Fifth Military District by order of President Johnson, and under the protest of General Grant on August 19. He has been ordered to Missouri to succeed General Hancock. The latter goes to Louisville, Kentucky, to succeed General George H. Thomas, who is to assume command in General Sheridan’s late department. General Thomas is a strong Republican, and is as little likely as Sheridan to compromise or affiliate with the New Orleans rebels.

General John Pope, in a long letter to General Grant, under date of July 24, complains of the pernicious influence exercised by B. H. Hill and other rebel leaders in their discussion of the reconstruction question in his district. He says that, although Congress did well in disfranchising them, it would have been better to have enforced their permanent absence from the country. Notwithstanding the drawbacks to a full reconstruction occasioned by these speechmakers, he believes that Alabama, Georgia, and Florida will give a heavy white majority for reconstruction, and that three-fourths of the colored votes in each State will be cast in favor of readmission under the law of Congress. But after reconstruction the baleful influence of the rebel leaders will prevail, and the evils which afflict Tennessee will be reproduced in the rest of the Southern States.

General Sheridan, on August 17, ordered an election of a Convention for Louisiana, to be held on the 27^th and 28^th of September, the Convention to consist of ninety-seven members. One section of the order directs that, where fraud or violence is perpetrated, the election shall be held over again under the protection of United States troops.

Registration in Louisiana having been completed the full returns foot up 44,732 whites, and 82,907 blacks.

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