Andrew Johnson, military Governor of the Confederate State of Tennessee, speaking at the State Capitol, in Nashville, delivers his “Appeal to the People of Tennessee Speech,” arguing that his authority as newly appointed military governor of the compulsory Union occupied portion of the Confederate State of Tennessee, is derived from the Article IV, Section 4, responsibility of Republican (nationalist) President Abraham Lincoln, of the united States, to “guarantee to each State in this [compulsory] Union a [r]epublican Form of Government.”
NOTE: Tennessee already had an elected republican form of government.
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References:
James Ostrowski, “Was the Union Army’s Invasion of the Confederate States a Lawful Act? An Analysis of President Lincoln’s Legal Arguments Against Secession, “Secession, State and Liberty, David Gordon, ed., (New Brunswick, New Jersey and London: Transaction, 1998), 174.
William M. Weicek, The Guarantee Clause of the U.S. Constitution, (Ithaca, New York and London: Cornell University Press, 1972), 184.
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