Of crime generally our people have a high understanding as well as of the necessity of its punishment; but in the catalogue of crimes there is one, and that the highest known to the laws and the Constitution, of which since the days of Aaron Burr they have become oblivious.
Blaine highlights a specific crime that has been overlooked by the public, stressing its significance in American law.
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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.
That is his work and it cannot properly be taken out of his hands.
As slavery had been the chief inciting cause of disunion, slavery should die.
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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