Political Quotes

But in the treatment of the colored man, now proposed, there was absolute heartlessness and rank injustice.

The wisdom of maintaining that institution was abundantly vindicated by the results of the war.

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.

In turn, the course of the National Administration would certainly be influenced, and its fate in large degree determined, by the conduct of the Southern men, in whom the President was placing unbounded trust.