It was well said at the time that the framers of the Constitution in 1787 were not confronted with difficulties so grave or surrounded with problems so complex and unproved, as were the leaders of Congress during the period of Reconstruction.
Blaine compares the challenges faced by the framers of the Constitution to those faced by Congress during Reconstruction.
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I believe that if it should pass it will receive the sanction of nineteen-twentieths of the loyal people of the country.
Of course the Rebellion will never be suppressed in Louisiana if the professed Union men there will neither help to do it nor permit the Government to do it without their help. . . .
He had placed himself in a position from which he could not with grace retreat, and to go forward in which was still further to blight his hopes of promotion in his party.
I have long since wished that capital punishment were abolished.
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