The Constitution of the United States, while it gave power to the body of States and guaranteed security to each yet deprived the individual States of many of the privileges and powers that they had enjoyed as colonies.
Boutwell discusses the balance of power between the states and the federal government as established by the Constitution.
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I would respect the rights of all nations, demanding equal respect for our own.
General Grant had no disposition to usurp power.
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.
That is the lesson the war has burned in on the brain and conscience of the Nation.
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