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Excerpt from Speech of Hon. Ebon C. Ingersoll, of Illinois: On the Government of Insurrectionary States; Delivered in the House of Representatives, February 7, 1867
I hold, sir, that the Government of the United States possesses as much inherent power and may exercise any power necessary to 'self preservation that any Government on earth can exercise. We are as powerful 1n war, and may in War legally and rightfully do what the Czar of Russia could do, What the Emperor of France could do, or any other monarchical Government. We possess the inherent right of self defense, and under that right we may do any act recognized under the laws of war necessary to self preservation.
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