You do not forget, that, in accepting his nomination as Vice-President, he rushed forward to declare that the Rebel States must be remodelled, that confiscation must be enforced, and that Rebels must be excluded from the work of Reconstruction.
Sumner recalls a declaration made by a Vice-President nominee regarding the need for significant changes in the Southern states post-Civil War.
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Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
Without yielding to any of these extreme views with regard to the mischiefs or the benefits of party, all should agree that the only true and legitimate object of such an association is to uphold, advance, and develop certain principles…
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
In this contest, we may borrow from the ancient Greek, who, when his hands were cut off, fought with his stumps, and even with his teeth.
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