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I declare it as my solemn conviction that no government can long continue to be free when one-third of its people and one-third of the States are controlled by military power." -- Mr.Bingham of Ohio, speaking for a more conservative type of republicanism than Mr.Stevens represented, begged gentlemen to "make haste slowly in the exercise of this highest possible power conferred by the Constitution upon the Congress of the United States.

For myself, sir, I am not going to yield to the proposition of the chairman of the committee, for a single moment, that one rood of the territory within the line of the ten states enumerated in this bill is conquered territory.

The Government of the United States does not conquer any territory that is under the jurisdiction of the Constitution." -- Mr.William Lawrence of Ohio said, "For myself I am ready to set aside by law all these illegal governments.

They have rejected all fair terms of reconstruction.