WILLIAM PITT FESSENDEN

Congress’ duty to the voters requires it to monitor how military appropriations are spent and to investigate the army’s failures if it was not willing to investigate itself. What are we to do? Sit idle during all the period that the [Civil] war is in progress?

We are not under the command of the military. They are under ours as a Congress.

We cannot put into the Constitution, owing to existing prejudices and existing institutions, an entire exclusion of all class distinctions.

If the President had his wife’s will and would use it rightly, our affairs would look much better.

an ill-bred, ravenous crowd

We cannot put into the Constitution, owing to existing prejudices and existing institutions, an entire exclusion of all class distinctions.

an ill-bred, ravenous crowd

If the President had his wife’s will and would use it rightly, our affairs would look much better.

We are not under the command of the military. They are under ours as a Congress.

Congress’ duty to the voters requires it to monitor how military appropriations are spent and to investigate the army’s failures if it was not willing to investigate itself. What are we to do? Sit idle during all the period that the [Civil] war is in progress?