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It was a confession of Congressional incompetence to deal with a problem which Congress alone had the right to solve.
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gutenberg.orgGeorge Julian: “It was a confession of Congressional incompetence to deal with a problem which Congress alone had the right to solve.”
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Julian argues that Congress's failure to address reconstruction effectively demonstrates its incompetence in governance.
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It may thus happen that a system of laws initiated by itinerant miners solely for the protection of their transient posessory interests, and carried through Congress at their behest by parliamentary roguery, may be permanently engrafted…
The times are bad, and want curing; They are getting past all enduring; Let us turn out Martin Van Buren, And put in old Tippecanoe.
They thus undermine the morals of the people, and pave the way for violence and crime.
They cripple a great national industry and source of wealth, and insult the principles of American jurisprudence.
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