The matured opinion of others is that a tenure of office definitely fixed for a term of years, during which the incumbent cannot be disturbed except upon substantial written charges, will secure a better class of officials.
Blaine advocates for fixed terms of office to ensure a better quality of officials in government positions.
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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. . . .
With whatever strength or prestige the President left Washington, he certainly returned to the Capital personally discredited and politically ruined.
I believe that if it should pass it will receive the sanction of nineteen-twentieths of the loyal people of the country.
I have long since wished that capital punishment were abolished.
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