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Philip Henry Sheridan, Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army . 1 1 Browse Search
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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 52: Tenure-of-office act.—equal suffrage in the District of Columbia, in new states, in territories, and in reconstructed states.—schools and homesteads for the Freedmen.—purchase of Alaska and of St. Thomas.—death of Sir Frederick Bruce.—Sumner on Fessenden and Edmunds.—the prophetic voices.—lecture tour in the West.—are we a nation?1866-1867. (search)
ll, which prohibited the denial of the elective franchise in the Territories on account of race or color. On the suggestion being made that it would be debated, Sumner said, Oh, no, I think not! Let us pass it through now. Let us crown what we have done to-day with that. The bill passed the next day without dissent from the Republican side. The President did not approve, or return the bill with objections, and it became a law without his action upon it. Sumner wrote to F. W. Bird, Jan. 10, 1867:— I think it best to adopt the amendment; The fourteenth amendment, pending before the Massachusetts Legislature. but since a question has been made as to its character as an offer to the rebel States, I would in a report or resolution declare that it is in no respect an offer which, if accepted by them, will bind Congress to receive them back. In one word, it is only an instalment, and not a finality. I think you will be satisfied with the result on Nebraska and Colorado.