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posing certain amendments to the Constitution,_ provision that the Representatives and Senate from such States as adopted the amendments should be at once admitted to their seats. After these amendements are adopted, if they adopted, then the question will come up, whether the particular individuals claiming seats are tited. That is the question we insist which should decided now. Certain persons are here claiming seats in gress, and, in violation of all the practice of past, of every precedent, of the spirit of the Constitution, each House persistently refuses to tain the question of right. This legal question; this question for the dec of which each House by the Constitution is the sole "judge", this question, in the hig sense a judicial question, each House, in violation of its most scared duty, refuses to consider. It is difficult to imagine a greater dereliction duty. It is difficult to concieve of a greater tion of the Constitution. Alas! what a moc to talk of the Constitution, when those who been chosen to administer to Government who take an oath "to support the Constitution refuse to consider the claims of theose Repres tives and Senators deputed by many States to ticipate in the great powers delegated to Con by the Constitution! We know that there are some people who at the idea, "constitutional restrictions," b are not of that class, for, if the Constitution vitality, hat security have we for any right!
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