Wednesday, December 20, 1865 — The daily dispatch
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tion in Congress. If the present basis were
not changed, he charged that the Democrats
would soon lay hands on the White House and
the halls of Congress ; that they would there
fore repudiate the Federal debt and assume
lie rebel one! In such an event, he claimed
"thai if the Southern States should then re
pudiate the Constitution lately forced upon
them, it would be right and just."