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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 178

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176 due for defending and protecting the frontier from invasion from Canada; he advocated paying the consuls whose office had been created during the war a salary instead of fees; and he urged a more comprehensive amendment to the constitution. He thought the fourteenth, as proposed did not go far enough; that the right of suffrage should be given at once to the more intelligent negroes and to those who had served in the army. He believed too that a more severe punishment than the mere disqualification from office holding should be meted out to southern leaders in the rebellion. After serving the remainder of Judge Collamer's term, Mr. Poland was at once returned to the house of representatives and Justin Smith Morrill began his thirty one
 
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