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Previous Legislative Experience of United States Senators by Agnes Wallace Smith, 1912

Previous Legislative Experience of United States Senators by Agnes Wallace Smith, 1912, Page 174

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172 justice. He has committed no high crime or misdemeanor. He has trampled on no man's right, he has violated no public duty. He has kept his oath of office unbroken and has sought in a a lawful manner to vindicate and preserve the high constitutional powers confided to him by the people. What he has done does not indicate criminal intent but patriotic purpose and besides that, true courage, sustained and invincible, which grapples with difficulty and defies danger." As to the admission of Arkansas Mr. Buckalew believed it wrong because the constitution was vicious and evil. (1) the bankrupt provision makes it unequal with other states. (2) because the right of suffrage was denied to soldiers in the rebellion, and to those disqualified in other states, and to
 
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