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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 49 : letters to Europe .—test oath in the senate.—final repeal of the fugitive-slave act.—abolition of the coastwise slave-trade.—Freedmen's Bureau .—equal rights of the colored people as witnesses and passengers.—equal pay of colored troops.—first struggle for suffrage of the colored people.—thirteenth amendment of the constitution.— French spoliation claims.—taxation of national banks.— differences with Fessenden .—Civil service Reform.—Lincoln's re-election.—parting with friends.—1863 -1864 . (search)
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 51 : reconstruction under Johnson 's policy.—the fourteenth amendment to the constitution.—defeat of equal suffrage for the District of Columbia , and for Colorado , Nebraska , and Tennessee .—fundamental conditions.— proposed trial of Jefferson Davis .—the neutrality acts. —Stockton's claim as a senator.—tributes to public men. —consolidation of the statutes.—excessive labor.— address on Johnson 's Policy.—his mother's death.—his marriage.—1865 -1866 . (search)
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 54 : President Grant 's cabinet.—A. T. Stewart 's disability.—Mr. Fish , Secretary of State .—Motley, minister to England .—the Alabama claims.—the Johnson -Clarendon convention.— the senator's speech: its reception in this country and in England .—the British proclamation of belligerency.— national claims.—instructions to Motley .—consultations with Fish .—political address in the autumn.— lecture on caste.—1869 . (search)
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 57 : attempts to reconcile the President and the senator.—ineligibility of the President for a second term.—the Civil-rights Bill.—sale of arms to France .—the liberal Republican party : Horace Greeley its candidate adopted by the Democrats .—Sumner 's reserve .—his relations with Republican friends and his colleague.—speech against the President .—support of Greeley .—last journey to Europe .—a meeting with Motley .—a night with John Bright.—the President 's re-election.—1871 -1872 . (search)