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Congressional Records: Forming of 14th Amendment
“Let
us next inquire what are the results of a rebellion against the General Government by one or more of the States of the Union;
first, the States rebelling and throwing off the Constitution and laws of the United States, and making war against them,
forfeit all the rights and privileges they acquired by coming into the Union; second, all these forfeited rights and privileges
naturally and necessarily revert back to the source from which they came-the General Government. These conclusions are so
natural and philosophical that I think no man will dispute them. Those revel States staked all the rights that they held by
the consent of the General Government at the commencement of the rebellion for the chance of what they could obtain by force;
and being conquered, they justly and rightfully lost all.”
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Mr. Henderson
Page 3144 third column,
second paragraph
Item #CNRC: 14thAmend
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