Dix became temporary chairman, and the resolutions, reciting the issue between the President and the Republicans, laid great emphasis upon the right of every State, without condition, to representation in Congress as soon as the war had ended.
This statement emphasizes the importance of state representation in Congress after the Civil War.
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As he lived, so he died, a strange, lonely, unhappy man, out of tune with the beautiful world in which he was permitted to exist upward of four score years.
If Joel Weed lived as a beggar, Thurlow thought as a king.
This reduced the question to ratification or secession.
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