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As to myself, I had never accepted the original decision as sound law under the Constitution, nor as a wise public policy, if there had been no Constitution.
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Boutwell expresses his disagreement with a legal decision regarding the constitutionality of the Legal Tender Act.
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General Grant had no disposition to usurp power.
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.
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.
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