The President's reconstruction policy would have been much stronger if the Southern elections to Congress had been postponed, or if the members elect had remained at home during the discussion concerning their eligibility.
Blaine critiques the President's reconstruction policy, suggesting it would have been stronger with delayed Southern elections.
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Their convention did more to popularize the Fourteenth Amendment as a political issue than any other instrumentality of the year.
I believe that if it should pass it will receive the sanction of nineteen-twentieths of the loyal people of the country.
That is his work and it cannot properly be taken out of his hands.
It was the insane folly of the South, in drawing the sword against the life of the Nation, that led irresistibly to the abolition of slavery.
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