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Remarks in Buffalo, New York

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Jun 19, 1868

Would it not be the part of wisdom to take for our guide the Federal Constitution, rather than resort to measures which, looking only to the present, may in a few years renew, in an aggravated form, the strife and bitterness caused by…

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Jul 17, 1868

The danger of a defeat of the people's choice in an election by the House of Representatives remains unprovided for in the Constitution.

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Jun 4, 1868

In further answer to the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 25th of November, 1867, calling for information in relation to the trial and conviction of American citizens in Great Britain and Ireland for the last two years, I…

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My object in this communication is to suggest certain defects in the Constitution which seem to me to require correction.

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