The latter are sure to be voters—many of them now, after carelessly taking oaths of allegiance—all of them some day; and politicians are not likely to make haste in doing that which they know to be odious to the men whose votes they want.
Reid warns of the political consequences of enfranchising former rebels, reflecting the complexities of post-war governance.
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The danger commences with the first extra-continental State.
Congress is supreme, and, for all the purposes of this department, has all the powers of the people of the United States, except such as have been expressly or by implication reserved in the prohibitions of the Constitution.
Let those who invoke the Supreme Law of the land learn and bow to it.