Speech of the Hon E Delafield Smith for Grant And the Republican Cause Delive
Speech of the Hon E Delafield Smith for Grant And the Republican Cause Delive
Edward Delafield Smith
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Thus, fellow-citizens, the actual text of our national charter furnishes no support to democratic pretensions as to the power of the President or of the Supreme Court over the rebel com- munities. In the first stages of their conquered condition, they were properly subjected to military orders ; in the next, to presidential proclamations; but the final and rightful jurisdic- tion over them is exercised by the American people through the American Congress. It follows, " as the night the day, " t...hat the laws of reconstruc- tion are not " revolutionary " nor " void. " They are founded on the very rock of the Constitution. From that Gibraltar let states- men defend ~them. The military features of the system of reconstruction find a remarkable precedent in the course pursued by our government toward the conquered territory of New Mexico. Proceedings which had been widely questioned passed in review before our supreme tribunal. They were declared consistent with constitu- tional authority, and of legal force.
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