George Julian: “The Governor's theory of reconstruction, in fact, made our war for the Union flagrantly unconstitutional.”

No sophistry could disguise this fact, nor could its significance be overstated.

They cripple a great national industry and source of wealth, and insult the principles of American jurisprudence.

But this treatment of the Abolitionists was manifestly unjust.

They scourge the mining States and Territories with the unspeakable curse of uncertainty of land titles, as everywhere attested by incurable litigation and strife.