But suppose that what some gentlemen desire could be accomplished,--a reconstruction of the Union by diplomatic relations inaugurated between this Government and Jefferson Davis'--suppose the South should return--what follows?
Boutwell discusses the implications of a potential diplomatic reconciliation with the South after the Civil War.
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I hope it is not necessary in this day and this hour of the Republic to argue anywhere that a property qualification is not only unjust in itself, but that it is odious to the people of the country to a degree which cannot be expressed.
This fact furnishes a pretext for efforts to make money while in the public service.
The people of the United States were embittered against the Government of Great Britain, and had General Grant chosen to seek redress by arms he would have been sustained throughout the North with substantial unanimity.
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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