The South's endorsement of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments, its declaration that the public credit must be sacredly maintained, and its denunciation of repudiation in every form and guise, created the belief that the North and South would, indeed, "clasp hands across the bloody chasm.
This quote reflects the belief in reconciliation between the North and South after the Civil War through constitutional amendments.
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Gross and unfounded charges of fraud are made by them against those high in authority.
No, Sirs! we know very little of the art of war, and General Scott a great deal.
Thoughtful men who were not in any sense political partisans gave careful heed to his words.
But Tilden, conscious of the need of an anti-Tweed legislature, had surmised the Ring's plan as early as Tweed devised it, and he replied with firmness that everything beside the legislative ticket was of minor importance to him.
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