Nor can any series of statements be more untruthful and absurd than the statements of the writer that "thenceforth it became creditable to advocate abolition in drawing rooms, and to preach it from fashionable city pulpits to congregations paying fancy prices for their pews.
Boutwell condemns a writer's statements as false and absurd, defending the integrity of abolition advocacy.
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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.
General Grant had no disposition to usurp power.
Does anybody contemplate such a qualification to the elective franchise, in the case of black people or white?
That is the lesson the war has burned in on the brain and conscience of the Nation.
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