In New Orleans, the bitterest complaint against the President’s Amnesty Proclamation was, that under it they would be compelled to select obscure persons, or new-comers, for Representatives, “instead of our old and tried leaders.
Reid captures the dissatisfaction in New Orleans regarding the selection of political representatives post-war.
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But why should a sensible man deal with such folly?
Above all, if there is a trace of politics in their work, or of seeking for political effect at home, they will fail, and deserve to fail.
Is that the feast to be set before the laboring men of this country?
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.