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Senate Resolution No. 2

"Resolution declaring the true principles of reconstruction; the jurisdiction of Congress over the whole subject; the illegality of existing governments in the rebel States, and the exclusion of such States; with such illegal governments, from representation in Congress, and from voting on constitutional amendments."
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House Resolution No. 12

"Resolution of the Legislature of Oregon to withdraw its assent to the proposed fourteenth constitutional amendment."
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Senate Resolution No. 7

"this war is not prosecuted on our part in any spirit of oppression"
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Senate Resolution No. 56

"the so-called fifteenth amendment is an infringement upon the popular rights, and a direct falsification of the pledges to the State of Oregon by the Federal Government."
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Senate Resolution No. 15

"Committee on the Judiciary be instructed to report a bill abrogating the unauthorized and illegal State governments."
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Congress Joint Resolution No. 39

"Joint Resolution to carry into effect the several Acts providing for a more efficient Government of the Rebel States."
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Congress Joint Resolution No. 58

"A resolution excluding from the Electoral College Votes of the States lately in Rebellion."
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