. The biography and public services of Hon James G. Blaine : giving a full account of twenty years in the national capital . by its fourteenth amendment, madeevery man a citizen, it required of him a duty to the Govern-ment whenever it called for his services, which he was boundto obey. It involved the same duty on him in war as in peace,and while this duty devolved on the citizen, the Government,in turn, was bound to protect him in all his rights and privi-leges, political and social. He did not believe in one law forthe citizen of Illinois, and another for the citizen of Mississippi;he belie
. The biography and public services of Hon James G. Blaine : giving a full account of twenty years in the national capital . by its fourteenth amendment, madeevery man a citizen, it required of him a duty to the Govern-ment whenever it called for his services, which he was boundto obey. It involved the same duty on him in war as in peace,and while this duty devolved on the citizen, the Government,in turn, was bound to protect him in all his rights and privi-leges, political and social. He did not believe in one law forthe citizen of Illinois, and another for the citizen of Mississippi;he believed that Government had the right, and should enforceit, to protect its citizens at an election, general or local, allow-ing every man to vote as he pleased, and assuring an honestcount of his vote as cast; he believed that the power was in-vested in the Government to protect its citizens anywhere inthe right of franchise and personal liberty. In February, 1880, he made in the Senate a legal argumentin favor of the payment by the United States of the Five PerCent, Claims of Illinois and other States against the Govern-. LOGAN IN THE SENATE. 643 ment for the land located by military warrant within theirboundaries. Although in this proposition he was opposed bysuch lawyers as Senator Edmunds and others of prominence,it was admitted by his opponents that it was a very ableargument. He maintained that this was a contract betweenthe Government of the United States and those States, whichhad been entered into and carried out in good faith on thepart of the people desiring the growth of the country, andunder this arrangement they had consented to proffer theseinducements to stimulate the settlement of the New declared that each and every compact with the Statesshould be kept in the same good faith, and everythingpromised for the welfare of the people should be faithfullyand religiously fulfilled. In March of that year occurred one of the chief episodes inGeneral Logans Senator
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