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Excerpt from Legal and Political Disabilities: Speech of Hon. Zachariah Chandler, of Michigan, in the Senate of the United States, January 31, 1872 Mr. President, I cannot vote this boon in advance of a demand for it, and I never will. The very moment that these rebels sh ow. That they have repented, that they have become loyal, law-abiding citizens, that moment I will vote them amnesty; but, until they do show that they have repented of their rebellion, I never will vote them amnesty. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.