And here allow me to say, that, in superintending the process of Reconstruction, Congress is a Court of Equity, bound to supply deficiencies in the existing law, to enjoin against threatened wrong, and generally to see justice done in spite of technicalities.
He describes Congress's role in Reconstruction as a judicial body ensuring justice despite legal technicalities.
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