George Boutwell: “Everybody knows what a dollar in gold is worth.”

By the amendment of 1865 freedom and equality in government were guaranteed to all and especially to the negro race in America.

They assert supreme authority over their fellow-men for an indefinite period of time, and they promise therewith good government.

By repeated decisions the Supreme Court has held that the stipulations and terms of the ordinance remained in force after the adoption of the Constitution, unless a conflict should appear, and in such a case the ordinance would yield to…

Here are the assertion of power and the promise of goodness that have attended the origin and movement of every despotism that has risen to curse mankind.