to it were proposed. Amendments to Sections 2, 3, and4 were adopted on June 8, 1866, and the modified resolution passed by a 33 to 11 vote (5 absent, not voting). The House agreed to the Senate amendments on June 13 by a 138–36 vote (10 not voting). A concurrent resolution requesting the President to transmit the proposal to the governors of the states was passed by both houses of Congress on June 18. The Radical Republicans were satisfied that they had secured civil rights for blacks but were disappointed that the amendment would not also secure political rights for blacks; in particular, the right to vote. For example, Thaddeus Stevens, a leader of the disappointed Radical Republicans, said: "I find that we shall be obliged to be content with patching up the worst portions of the ancient edifice, and leaving it, in many of its parts, to be swept through by the tempests, the frosts, and the storms of despotism." Abolitionist Wendell Phillips called it a "fatal and total surrender". This point would later be addressed by the Fifteenth Amendment. Ratification by the states On June 16, 1866, Secretary of State William Seward transmitted the Fourteenth Amendment to the governors of the several states for its ratification. State legislatures in every formerly Confederate state, with the exception of Tennessee, refused to ratify it. This refusal led to the passage of the Reconstruction Acts. Ignoring the existing state governments, military government was imposed until new civil governments were established and the Fourteenth Amendment was ratified. It also prompted Congress to pass a law on March 2, 1867, requiring that a former Confederate state must ratify the Fourteenth Amendment before "said State shall be declared entitled to representation in Congress." The first 28 states to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment were: Connecticut: June 30, 1866 New Hampshire: July 6, 1866 Tennessee: July 18, 1866 New Jersey: September 11, 1866 (rescinded ratification February 20, 1868/March 24, 1868; re-ratified April 23, 2003) Oregon: September 19, 1866 (rescinded ratification October 16, 1868; re-ratified April 25, 1973) Vermont: October 30, 1866 New York: January 10, 1867 Ohio: January 11, 1867 (rescinded ratification January 13, 1868; re-ratified March 12, 2003) Illinois: January 15, 1867 West Virginia: January 16, 1867 Michigan: January 16, 1867 Minnesota: January 16, 1867 Kansas: January 17, 1867 Maine: January 19, 1867 Nevada: January 22, 1867 Indiana: January 23, 1867 Missouri: January 25, 1867