As soon therefore as it was attempted to secure a political advantage for the Administration by calling the Cleveland Convention, the great mass of Union soldiers demanded that a convention be held in which their true position might be proclaimed.
Blaine describes the response of Union soldiers to a political maneuver by the Administration, highlighting their desire for representation.
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The need of action and of energy so pressed upon him that he found no time to utter lamentation, none to indulge even in the most sacred personal grief.
Durant speaks of no duty, apparently thinks of none resting upon Southern Union men.
But in the treatment of the colored man, now proposed, there was absolute heartlessness and rank injustice.
These divergent practices had been allowed to develop for seventy-seven years of the nation's life, when, admonished by the Stockton case of the latitudinary results to which loose methods might lead, Congress took jurisdiction of the…
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