You, people of the North, who have been victorious upon the whole through three years of war--you are to disgrace your ancestry--you are to render yourselves infamous in all future time, by furling your flag and submitting anew to rebel authority upon this continent.
Boutwell condemns the idea of the North submitting to Southern authority after their victory in the Civil War.
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