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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)
nt's report. He asked why, if Sumner and others thinking with him desired suffrage for the negroes, they did not say so broadly, and Sumner answered promptly from his seat, I do say so. A few days later Sumner called for full information concerning the provisional governors appointed by the President and the action of the Southern conventions and legislatures. Soon after he drew attention to the illegal appointments at the South of persons unable to take the required oath of loyalty. January 5, 11; February 2; Congressional Globe, pp. 129, 184, 185, 593. The protests against the President's policy came from the people more tardily than otherwise, on account of certain conditions in the public mind which are not revealed in the debates in Congress. The country sought repose after the war, and was not in the mood for a severe civil conflict. Wise men feared the effects on our polity of a prolonged military administration at the South, and were anxious for a speedy restoratio