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Excerpt from The Ordinance of 1787 and the War of 1861: An Address Delivered Before the New York Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion
The three amendments which followed the last war are therefore known as the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth. The first of them was adopted in 1865, the next in 1868, and the last in 1870. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
