Excerpt from The Degradation of Our Representative System and Its Reform

Whatever may be the result of the bloody war now raging, it is presumed there is no one who does not see that it has already given such a shock to our republican institutions, that they will require great and important modifications, if not a reconstruction from their very foundation. Many changes must be made, both to give the requisite strength to the general Government, and to prevent that strength being abused; to consolidate the restored or diminished confederacy, and, at the same time, to save our local institutions, our personal liberties, from extinction; above all, to guard us, if possible, from the evils we have experienced in our system of election for National offices, especially, that of President of the United States; evils which will be greatly augmented in the inevitable consequence of the present war, - the enormous military power of the Executive.

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