It is notable especially because of the extreme tension to which it subjected the Constitution, and the attestation it affords of the restraint which a free people instinctively impose upon themselves in times of public excitement.
Blaine highlights the constitutional tension created by the impeachment process and the self-restraint of the public during crises.
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I have long since wished that capital punishment were abolished.
As slavery had been the chief inciting cause of disunion, slavery should die.
Observing men in the loyal States regarded such a policy not only as weak and maudlin, but as utterly insufficient and assuredly dangerous to the future safety of the Government.
That is his work and it cannot properly be taken out of his hands.
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