Again, "We have the right to acquire territory and we have the right to govern all territory acquired, but we must govern it under the Constitution, and in the exercise of those powers, and those only, which have been conferred upon Congress by the Constitution.
Boutwell emphasizes that the governance of acquired territories must adhere to the Constitution.
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General Grant had no disposition to usurp power.
They were relived from the disparaging distinctions that came into existence with the system of slavery.
I cannot imagine that in a hundred years this anniversary, in its organization and conduct, will be thought worthy of imitation.
On no man in public life in this generation were there more frequent charges and insinuations of wrong-doing, and in this generation there has been no man in public life who was freer from all occasion for such insinuations and charges.
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