An amendment to the United States Constitution to abolish slavery introduced during the American Civil War.
Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate for the Thirty-Eighth Session of Congress
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Mr. Sumner's Resolution on the Readmission of Rebellious States is received from the Senate.
Resolved, That a State pretending to secede from the Union and battling against the national Government to maintain this pretension must be regarded as a rebel State, subject to military occupation, and without title to representation on this floor until it has been readmitted by a vote of both Houses of Congress; and the Senate will decline to entertain any application from any such rebel State until after such vote of both Houses of Congress.