James Blaine: “Why, then, may not two American confederacies exist side by side without conflict, each emulating the other in the…”

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.

These divergent practices had been allowed to develop for seventy-seven years of the nation's life, when, admonished by the Stockton case of the latitudinary results to which loose methods might lead, Congress took jurisdiction of the…

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. . . .