The great mass of Republicans in Congress maintained that it was not only common justice but common sense to define, without interposition or advice from the South, the conditions upon which the insurrectionary States should be re-clothed with the panoply of National power.
Blaine emphasizes the importance of Congress defining the terms for the reintegration of Southern states after the Civil War.
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Observing men in the loyal States regarded such a policy not only as weak and maudlin, but as utterly insufficient and assuredly dangerous to the future safety of the Government.
Durant speaks of no duty, apparently thinks of none resting upon Southern Union men.
He was a lawyer in full practice, a man of the highest integrity, without fear and without reproach.
In all the revolted states, upon the testimony of your ablest generals, there is no safety to the property or lives of loyal men.
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