James Blaine: “But the importance of the President's Impeachment does not depend upon the fame of his accusers or upon the length of…”

Their convention did more to popularize the Fourteenth Amendment as a political issue than any other instrumentality of the year.

Of course the Rebellion will never be suppressed in Louisiana if the professed Union men there will neither help to do it nor permit the Government to do it without their help. . . .

In Congressional districts where the colored race constituted one-half of the total population (and in many instances the proportion was even larger), the vote of one white man offset the vote of two in a Northern district where suffrage…

The wisdom of maintaining that institution was abundantly vindicated by the results of the war.