Stevens, if carried to its legitimate consequences, would make those who resisted the Confederacy in the insurrectionary states guilty of treason to that power; and that therefore "we would be unable to talk of loyal men in the South.
Blaine warns that certain theories about loyalty during the Civil War could label those resisting the Confederacy as traitors.
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Their convention did more to popularize the Fourteenth Amendment as a political issue than any other instrumentality of the year.
I believe that if it should pass it will receive the sanction of nineteen-twentieths of the loyal people of the country.
But in the treatment of the colored man, now proposed, there was absolute heartlessness and rank injustice.
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.
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