Let the charge be answered, or otherwise, let the President and the supporters of his policy abandon the doctrine that we can seize, hold and govern communities and peoples who are not within the jurisdiction of our Constitution and, who, consequently, are not subject to our laws.
Boutwell challenges the President's doctrine of governing outside constitutional restraints.
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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.
Not infrequently a statement would be the occasion of scandal and of suffering by innocent parties.
General Grant was not indisposed to see the territories of the Republic extended, but his love of justice and fair dealing was such that he would have used only honorable means in his intercourse with other nations.
Does anybody contemplate such a qualification to the elective franchise, in the case of black people or white?
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