Excerpt from Speech of Hon. Benjamin F. Butler, of Massachusetts: Delivered in the House of Representatives, December 20 and 21, 1869 The other oath provided in this is simply an oath that all disabilities have been removed. Then we go on to say that any person declining to take these oaths is excluded; and that, I believe, is the entire action of the second sec tion. The third section provides for punishment in cases of perjury and false swearing. 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.