The lenity with which the triumphant Union had treated the crime of rebellion--sacrificing no man's life, stripping no man of his property, depriving no man of his personal liberty--gave the Government the right to expect order and the reign of law in the South.
Blaine discusses the leniency shown by the Union towards the South after the Civil War, expecting order in return.
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Durant speaks of no duty, apparently thinks of none resting upon Southern Union men.
I have long since wished that capital punishment were abolished.
I believe that if it should pass it will receive the sanction of nineteen-twentieths of the loyal people of the country.
An attempt to guarantee and protect a revived State government constructed in whole or in preponderating part from the very element against whose hostility and violence it is to be protected is simply absurd.
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