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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 2 2 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4 2 2 Browse Search
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 1 1 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 1 1 Browse Search
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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)
that it would enter at a disadvantage into a contest with the President in the autumn elections unless it presented a definite and positive policy as the alternative of the one on which he had appealed to the country. Sumner in the Senate, May 2, 1866, referred to voices from without insisting that there must be a political issue presented to the country. Works, vol. x. p. 429. Sumner himself may have felt the force of the political consideration when, after the defeat of the committee's olored men, January 19, in relation to the credentials of W. Marvin, senator from Florida (Works, vol. x. pp. 109. 110); proposed amendment to the reconstruction bill, May 29, 1866 (Works, vol. x. p. 468); remarks on time and reconstruction, May 2, 1866 (Works, vol. x. pp. 428-431); letter to a committee of the District of Columbia, April 14, 1866 (Works, vol. x. pp. 417, 418); letter to the American Antislavery Society, May, 1866 (Works, vol. x. p. 427). Other references by him to the con