Reconstruction Claims of the Inhabitants of the States Engaged in the Rebellion to Restoration of Political Rights and Privileges Under the Constitution (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Reconstruction Claims of the Inhabitants of the States Engaged in the Rebellion to Restoration of Political Rights and Privileges Under the Constitution The question of the day with the people of the United States - and none of graver moment ever agitated the public mind - is that concerning the claims of the inhabitants of the several States, recently in open rebellion against the national Government, to be re-admitted to the exercise of the personal and corporate political powers and franchises which they enjoyed under the Constitution before they made war upon the Union in order to accomplish its destruction. That, by reason of that rebellion and its suppression, those who were parties to it forfeited their rights, as individual citizens, to property, liberty, and life, of which they could at any time be deprived by due process of law, and to which they could be restored only by the pardon of the Government, no one who does not justify the rebellion denies. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.