But this is a totally different thing from an offensive war to punish the people for the political misdeeds of their State Government, or to enforce an acknowledgment that the Government of the United States is supreme.
He distinguishes between defensive actions and offensive wars aimed at punishing states for their political actions.
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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.
Their convention did more to popularize the Fourteenth Amendment as a political issue than any other instrumentality of the year.
That is his work and it cannot properly be taken out of his hands.
The Northern people shrank from the responsibility of transferring the government of States to the control of men who had already shown themselves capable of desperate deeds.
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