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Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Chapter 47: freedmen's aid societies and an act of congress creating a Bureau of refugees, freedmen and abandoned lands (search)
f committees which had under consideration freedmen's matters. He was an able, eloquent, and persevering friend of the emancipated. The field societies looked to him for sympathy and help in the House, as they always did to Henry Wilson and Charles Sumner in the Senate. Eliot and Wilson were never extremists. They were wisely progressive; if they could not take two steps forward, they would take one, and bide their time for further advance. Mr. Eliot, the latter part of January, 1863, begalled on the friends of the Government and of humanity to rally around him upon the side of duty. The bill at last passed the House, but only with a majority of two votes. May 25th, this bill, somewhat amended, was reported to the Senate by Mr. Sumner. It encountered for some days hot and strong opposition there, pleading against its constitutionality and expediency, but was finally passed by a majority of twelve votes. While the friends of the original bill were urging the House to nonc
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Index (search)
507-509, 532, 542, 561, 579, 592, 595, 590, 605, 606; II, 27, 28, 328. Stooksbury, W. L., II, 583. Streight, A. D., II, 55. Strong, William E., II, 8, 23, 24, 125, 138, 143, 216. Stuart, J. E. B., I, 53, 147, 156, 173, 196, 198, 216, 259-261, 266, 267, 274, 279, 293, 305, 318, 331, 334, 337, 352, 358, 367, 380-384, 388, 389, 401, 434. Stuart, Owen, II, 82. Sturgis, Samuel D., I, 280, 302-305. Sturgis, William B., II, 387. Sully, Alfred, I, 238, 269, 326, 342. Sumner, Charles, II, 198, 200. Sumner, E. V., I, 172, 180-185, 190, 194-199, 207, 215, 220, 221, 227-229, 237, 238, 240, 242, 266, 267, 269, 272, 277, 279, 290, 291, 295-298, 301, 302, 305, 311, 316, 317, 822, 325, 326, 329, 333, 337, 338, 344, 347. Sumner, Sam S., I, 183, 186. Sunderland, Byron, I, 175. Swayne, Noah, II, 218, 345. Swayne, Wager, II, 107, 217, 218, 249, 253, 254, 287, 333-335, 353, 411, 413. Sweeny, Thomas W., I, 519, 520; II, 4, 5, 6. Sykes, George, I, 298, 303, 3