His great aim and purpose has been to subvert law, usurp authority, insult and outrage Congress, reconstruct the rebel States in the interest of treason, and insult the memories and resting-places of our heroic dead.
Blaine accuses President Johnson of undermining the law and acting against the interests of Congress and the nation.
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Durant speaks of no duty, apparently thinks of none resting upon Southern Union men.
Their success as civil magistrates, as legislators, as executives was not less marked and meritorious than their illustrious service in war.
Such an opportunity would have been a menace to the public credit, and would have proved a constant source of corruption.
It was the insane folly of the South, in drawing the sword against the life of the Nation, that led irresistibly to the abolition of slavery.
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