In all of them the so-called "ten per cent" governments established under Mr.Lincoln's authority were now recognized.

Governor Hahn was held to be the true executive of Louisiana,--a concession all the more readily made, because, under the revised constitution of the State, the people would be called upon in the approaching autumn to choose his successor.

In Arkansas also, the Government, with Isaac Murphy at its head, was now recognized; and in Tennessee the authority of William G.Brownlow as governor was promptly accepted as constitutional and regular.

This Government, as already narrated, had been brought into existence by the earnest effort of Mr.
Johnson in the period which had elapsed between his election and inauguration as Vice-President.

The direct committal of the President to the legality of his own work was the controlling cause which led to the recognition of the Governments of the four States under consideration.