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What can be indissoluble if a perpetual Union, made more perfect, is not?

Salmon P. Chase

The Constitution, in all its provisions, looks to an indestructible Union composed of indestructible States.

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A resignation is a grave act; never performed by a right minded man without forethought or with reserve.

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True democracy makes no enquiry about the color of skin, or the place of nativity, whereever it sees man, it recognizes a being endowed by his Creator with original inalienable rights.

Salmon P. Chase

Congress was right in not limiting, by its reconstruction acts, the right of suffrage to whites; but wrong in the exclusion from suffrage of certain classes of citizens and all unable to take its prescribed retrospective oath, and wrong also in the establishment of despotic military governments for the States and in authorizing military commissions for the trial of civilians in time of peace. There should have been as little military government as possible; no military commissions; no classes excluded from suffrage; and no oath except one of faithful obedience and support to the Constitution and laws, and of sincere attachment to the constitutional Government of the United States.

Salmon P. Chase

How wrong it is for those who love, not to express their love.

Salmon P. Chase

Salmon P. Chase

Salmon P. Chase

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Born: January 13, 1808

Died: May 7, 1873 (aged 65)

Bio: Salmon Portland Chase was an American politician and jurist who served as the sixth Chief Justice of the United States from 1864 to 1873. During his career, Chase was the 23rd Governor of Ohio and U.S.

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