This theory of reserved rights was pretty forcibly, logically and effectually refuted by the late war; so must all such reservations be equally well refuted before permanent peace, harmony and prosperity can be expected to flow from government and it remain permanent.
Woodhull reflects on how the recent war challenged the theory of reserved rights.
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It is this species of corruption that is becoming a stench in the nostrils of all those whose patriotism is more than pocket deep.
Charity, with its long cloak of justice escaped, has long enough covered a multitude of sins.
With its destruction the lives of two great political parties passed away, and left the people with no distinct lines of demarkation.
At no time since the close of the Revolutionary War has there been a time more fitting and inviting for such a work.