Political Quotes

An attempt to guarantee and protect a revived State government constructed in whole or in preponderating part from the very element against whose hostility and violence it is to be protected is simply absurd.

Durant speaks of no duty, apparently thinks of none resting upon Southern Union men.

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.

The two schools in short marked the dividing line between the radical and the conservative.