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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)
Congressional Globe, p. 467), another resolution for creating homesteads for the former slaves of a master from his land, and proposed again his former series of resolutions. He spoke, Feb. 26, 1867 (Works, vol. XI. pp. 117, 118), in favor of a bureau of education, with special reference to the Southern States. which he defended in debate. March 11; Works, vol. XI. pp. 124-136. He defended the plan proposed by the resolutions at a later date, March 16; Ibid., pp. 143-163. Address, Oct. 29, 1868; Works, vol. XII. pp. 526, 527. they were opposed by Sherman and Frelinghuysen on the ground that such supplementary demands on the Southern people, following so closely on the recent Act, were discouraging and distracting, and they encountered the objection of being mere declarations of opinion, and not legislation. Morton spoke in favor of the provision for education, and Howe sustained the resolutions generally, and both contested the idea that the recent legislation was in any resp