Neither Taylor nor Fillmore--both reared in the Whig school -- ever attempted to defeat the will of Congress, though each wielded Executive power at a time when questions even more exciting than those of Jackson's era engaged public attention.

Mr.Lincoln presents a strong contrast with his predecessors,--Pierce and Buchanan,--illustrating afresh the contradiction that the party declaiming most loudly against Executive power has constantly abused it.

Mr.Tyler and Mr.Johnson were both chosen by the opponents of the Democracy, but they were both reared in that school, and both returned to it--exhibiting in their apostasy the readiness with which the Democratic mind turns to the tyranny of the veto.
The success of reconstruction in the South carried with it the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment by the requisite number of States.

The result was duly certified by Mr.Seward as Secretary of State, on the twenty-eighth day of July, 1868, and the Amendment was thenceforward a part of the organic law of the nation.

It had been carried, from first to last, as a party measure--unanimously supported by the Republicans, unanimously opposed by the Democrats.