On the record
You all know, that, at the close of the war, when the Rebel States were without lawful governments, he assumed to supply them.
Source
gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Sumner points out the President's assumption of authority to govern Rebel States after the Civil War.
Share
More from Charles Sumner
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
At Baltimore the delegation of the most important State in the Union, known to be in favor of the Wilmot Proviso, was refused admission to the Convention.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
Their existence is a disgrace to civilization; for it implies the common consent of nations to the Arbitrament of War, as regulated by these laws.
Other voices in this conversation
