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Having agreed to the use of an unconstitutional tribunal, or to an extra constitutional tribunal, I had no qualms about accepting the result.
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Boutwell admits to accepting the results of an unconstitutional tribunal, indicating a complex relationship with legality and political outcomes.
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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.
That is the lesson the war has burned in on the brain and conscience of the Nation.
They were relived from the disparaging distinctions that came into existence with the system of slavery.
Indeed, one may go still further, and say that it is not safe to trust the guidance of the Government in financial affairs to men whose life business it has been to convert information into gold.
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