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In the resolutions, in the address, and in all the speeches, the one refrain was the right of every State to representation in Congress.
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Blaine emphasizes the importance of state representation in Congress following the Civil War.
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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.
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 wisdom of maintaining that institution was abundantly vindicated by the results of the war.
Durant speaks of no duty, apparently thinks of none resting upon Southern Union men.
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