If it be true that war cannot be declared, nor a system of general hostilities carried on by the Central Government against a State, then it seems to follow that an attempt to do so would be ipso facto an expulsion of such State from the Union.
He argues that if war cannot be declared against a state, attempting to do so would effectively expel that state from the Union.
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But in the treatment of the colored man, now proposed, there was absolute heartlessness and rank injustice.
As slavery had been the chief inciting cause of disunion, slavery should die.
I believe that if it should pass it will receive the sanction of nineteen-twentieths of the loyal people of the country.
The wisdom of maintaining that institution was abundantly vindicated by the results of the war.
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