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of President Johnson, and advocated the early adoption of the Fifteenth Amendment of the Constitution, which provides that the right of suffrage shall not be abridged by the United States, nor by any State “on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”
In local matters Dana took grounds against imprisonment for debt, and against the New York law prohibiting the sale of liquor, as both unsound and ineffective.
On the arrest of his friend Samuel Bowles, editor of the Springfield Republican, while visiting New York, for libel, he not only condemned the act, but denied the right of any citizen of Massachusetts to use the courts of New York in any such case.
All unconscious of its bearing upon himself in the future, he held then that it was of the essence of justice and the constitutional right of every American citizen to be tried by the laws and within the limit of his own State for any crime with which he might be charged against the people of that State.
Harper and Brothers, New York and London, 1907.
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