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I profoundly regret this fact;... but it is a fact, nevertheless, and, as such, must weigh in determining my conduct as a citizen....
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Reid expresses his regret about the war, acknowledging its reality and the impact it has on his responsibilities as a citizen.
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Congress is supreme, and, for all the purposes of this department, has all the powers of the people of the United States, except such as have been expressly or by implication reserved in the prohibitions of the Constitution.
They appeared at times when public men often seemed to be groping in the dark on an unknown road, but it is now evident that the road which has been taken is substantially the road they marked out.
Brushing aside, then, these bugbears, gentlemen, what are the obvious duties of the hour?
Fully believing the debts of their Rebel Government legal and just, they were prepared to repudiate them at a hint from Washington.