Most of them honestly said that they still believed it a constitutional right; but that having appealed to the verdict of arms, instead of the verdict of the Supreme Court, they were bound to acquiesce in the decision which the trial by battle had given.
Reid discusses how some former Confederates still believed in the constitutional right to slavery but accepted the outcome of the war.
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