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Debates in the Senate on the Fifteenth Amendment, 1869

January–February 1869. The Senate's debate on the joint resolutions (S. R. No. 8, H. R. No. 402) proposing the Fifteenth Amendment: every item headed “Suffrage Constitutional Amendment” in which the Senate took them up, and its sitting of January 30, as printed in the Congressional Globe, from January 21 to the conference report of February 26, 1869.

23 items4,085 paragraphs298k words
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    January 21, 1869

    4 paragraphs1 min
  2. 2

    January 23, 1869

    74 paragraphs22 min
  3. 3

    January 25, 1869

    2 paragraphs1 min
  4. 4

    January 28, 1869

    156 paragraphs58 min
  5. 5

    January 29, 1869

    165 paragraphs67 min
  6. 6

    January 30, 1869

    15 paragraphs2 min
  7. 7

    February 1, 1869

    4 paragraphs1 min
  8. 8

    February 3, 1869

    34 paragraphs5 min
  9. 9

    February 4, 1869

    197 paragraphs88 min
  10. 10

    February 5, 1869

    2 paragraphs1 min
  11. 11

    February 5, 1869 (2)

    152 paragraphs72 min
  12. 12

    February 5, 1869 (3)

    70 paragraphs37 min
  13. 13

    February 6, 1869

    101 paragraphs20 min
  14. 14

    February 8, 1869

    40 paragraphs17 min
  15. 15

    February 8, 1869 (2)

    887 paragraphs316 min
  16. 16

    February 9, 1869

    524 paragraphs138 min
  17. 17

    February 17, 1869

    261 paragraphs85 min
  18. 18

    February 17, 1869 (2)

    894 paragraphs218 min
  19. 19

    February 22, 1869

    83 paragraphs13 min
  20. 20

    February 23, 1869

    31 paragraphs3 min
  21. 21

    February 25, 1869

    30 paragraphs2 min
  22. 22

    February 26, 1869

    240 paragraphs95 min
  23. 23

    February 26, 1869 (2)

    119 paragraphs35 min

Text of The Congressional Globe: Containing the Debates and Proceedings of the Third Session of the Fortieth Congress (Washington: F. & J. Rives & Geo. A. Bailey, 1869), read from OCR; the debates are given as reported, not always word for word.How this text was made

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