Excerpt from Speech of Hon. M. Russell Thayer, of Pennsylvania, in the House of Representatives of the United States, April 30, 1864, on the Bill to Guarantee to Certain States Whose Governments Have Been Overthrown, a Republic Form of Government Sir, no power of language at my command can cdfitly describe the great treachery which was then committed against the American people, and Ifor, bear for the man, although he still moves among living men, has really passed away. Dante, in his journey through hell relates that as he passed through that dismal region, in which he beheld traitors frozen up in swaths of me, their eyes incrusted with their frozen tears as in a crystal visor, he met the t11aralbe11go. What! Exclaimed Dante, art thou no longer, then, among the living? Perhaps I appear to be, answered the friar, for the moment any one commits a treachery like mine his soul gives up his body to a demon who thenceforward inhabits itin the man's likeness. Thou knowest Branca Do1ia who mu111deied his father ia law, Zanche? He seems to be walking the earth still, and yet he has beeh in this place many years. Impossible! Cried Dante; Branca Do1ia is still alive; he eats, d1inks, and sleeps like any otl1e11m.an I tell thee, returned the friar, that the soul of the man he slew had not reached that lake of boiling pitch 111 which thou sawest him ere the soul of his slay er was in this place, and his body occupied by a demon in its stead. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.