On the other hand, Democrats traced Southern conditions to opposition to the President's policy, charging Congress with a base betrayal of the Constitution in requiring the late Confederate States to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment as a condition precedent to the admission of their representatives.
This statement illustrates the Democrats' perspective on the South's conditions and their accusations against Congress regarding the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Indeed, he went a step farther in the way of irreconciliation, preferring Hoffman and Tammany, he said, to "the reckless, red-radicalism which rules the present Congress....
Thoughtful men who were not in any sense political partisans gave careful heed to his words.
He used to get angry with men simply because they voted against him on questions in which he took an interest.
Thoughtful men who reverenced the safeguard known to civil judicial proceedings were appalled.
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