. The Fortieth Congress of the United States: historical and biographical. hes evincing much thought and careful studyin their preparation. In a speech delivered July 20, 1807, on thePresidents message, he denounced the arrogance of Mr. Johnson inpresuming to take into his own hands and to subject to the poorfallible judgment of a single individual the immense work of restor-ing civil order, and guaranteeing republican governments to the dis-organized States of the Union. December 4, 1867, he gave a seriesof brief and cogent reasons for the repeal of the cotton tax. January18, 1868, he deliver
. The Fortieth Congress of the United States: historical and biographical. hes evincing much thought and careful studyin their preparation. In a speech delivered July 20, 1807, on thePresidents message, he denounced the arrogance of Mr. Johnson inpresuming to take into his own hands and to subject to the poorfallible judgment of a single individual the immense work of restor-ing civil order, and guaranteeing republican governments to the dis-organized States of the Union. December 4, 1867, he gave a seriesof brief and cogent reasons for the repeal of the cotton tax. January18, 1868, he delivered an eloquent and able speech against the pur-chase of Alaska, in the course of which he said that the well-beingof the nation loudly and imperatively demands a period of rest fromterritorial growth, during which it may harmonize its jarring andhostile elements, restore its crippled industries, complete its greatchannels of inter-communication, and unify itself by building up inthe hearts of its people that ammr patrim which such immense num-bers of them have lost. 333. ?^S *>;-Ge<;Eft!-io^^
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