It affected moreover only that great section of country which had engaged in the crime of rebellion; and if it were viewed only as a punishment of those who had sought the destruction of the Government, they felt more than justified in inflicting it.
Blaine discusses the justification for punitive measures against the Southern states after the Civil War.
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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. . . .
The two schools in short marked the dividing line between the radical and the conservative.
I believe that if it should pass it will receive the sanction of nineteen-twentieths of the loyal people of the country.
In Congressional districts where the colored race constituted one-half of the total population (and in many instances the proportion was even larger), the vote of one white man offset the vote of two in a Northern district where suffrage…
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