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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)
o absurdly astray! New England Magazine, February, 1892, p. 734. The bill passed—Sumner and five other Republicans and some Democrats voting against it. An amendment moved by E. B. Washburne in the House, requiring the people of Colorado as a condition of admission to strike out from the constitution the word white as a qualification of voters, was defeated, receiving only thirty-seven votes; but among them were those of well-known public men—Blaine, Boutwell, Garfield, Jenckes, Julian, Kasson, Morrill, and Stevens. The President vetoed the bill chiefly on the ground of an insufficient population in the Territory. When the question came up at the next session, Sumner's amendment prevailed; but the President again vetoed the bill. Sumner, just before the close of the session, made an ineffectual effort to incorporate the same condition in the bill to admit Nebraska, the constitution of which had expressly confined suffrage to white male citizens; but only four senators voted w