On the record
The system of slavery has perished, the institutions of the country have been reconciled to the principles of freedom, and in these changes we have additional guarantees for the perpetuity of the Union.
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Boutwell notes the end of slavery and the reconciliation of American institutions with freedom principles.
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But General Grant was destitute of the war spirit, and he chose to exhaust all the powers of negotiation before he would advise a resort to force.
That is the lesson the war has burned in on the brain and conscience of the Nation.
If others depart from this rule in their dealings with us, we may be compelled to follow their precedent.
Indeed, one may go still further, and say that it is not safe to trust the guidance of the Government in financial affairs to men whose life business it has been to convert information into gold.
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