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Twelve Democrats, to their honor be it said, refused to yield.
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Blaine commends the twelve Democrats who stood firm against the prevailing political pressure.
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In my judgment our sole authority for the acts which we have done during the last four years was the authority communicated to Congress by the Constitution to suppress insurrection.
It is to the eminent credit of the Republican members of Congress that they stood in a crisis of this magnitude true to principle, firm against all the power and all the patronage of the Administration.
Their convention did more to popularize the Fourteenth Amendment as a political issue than any other instrumentality of the year.
With whatever strength or prestige the President left Washington, he certainly returned to the Capital personally discredited and politically ruined.
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