Is this what the loyal North has been fighting for?
Thousands of loyal white men, driven like partridges over the mountains, homeless, houseless, penniless, to-day throng this capital.

They fill the hotels, they crowd the avenues, they gather in these marble corridors, they look down from these galleries, and with supplicating eye ask protection from the flag that hangs above the Speaker's chair--a flag which thus far has unfurled its stripes, but concealed the promise of its stars." -- Mr.Le Blond of Ohio declared that "the provisions of this bill strike down every important provision in the Constitution.

You have already inaugurated enough here to destroy any government that was ever founded.

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