On the record
That is the lesson the war has burned in on the brain and conscience of the Nation.
Source
gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Boutwell asserts that the lessons learned from the war have profoundly impacted the nation's conscience.
Share
More from George Boutwell
I cannot imagine that in a hundred years this anniversary, in its organization and conduct, will be thought worthy of imitation.
Does anybody contemplate such a qualification to the elective franchise, in the case of black people or white?
He was so great that it was not a humiliation to acknowledge a change in opinion, or to admit an error in policy or purpose.
He was deeply pained by the unjust attacks and groundless criticism of which he was the subject, but he accepted the adverse judgment of the Senate as a constitutional binding decision of the question, and of that decision he never…
Other voices in this conversation
