It has seemed to me that if we revolutionize the practice of the Government in all other respects, we might let this power remain in the hands of the President of the United States; that we should not strip him of this power, which is one that it seems to me is necessary and reasonable that he should exercise.
Blaine argues for the necessity of presidential power in government operations.
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But in the treatment of the colored man, now proposed, there was absolute heartlessness and rank injustice.
Their success as civil magistrates, as legislators, as executives was not less marked and meritorious than their illustrious service in war.
I believe that if it should pass it will receive the sanction of nineteen-twentieths of the loyal people of the country.
This ratio of influence went into the Electoral College, and gave to the white men of South Carolina, Mississippi and Louisiana double the power of that enjoyed by white men in New York, Illinois and California.
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