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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 50: last months of the Civil War.—Chase and Taney, chief-justices.—the first colored attorney in the supreme court —reciprocity with Canada.—the New Jersey monopoly.— retaliation in war.—reconstruction.—debate on Louisiana.—Lincoln and Sumner.—visit to Richmond.—the president's death by assassination.—Sumner's eulogy upon him. —President Johnson; his method of reconstruction.—Sumner's protests against race distinctions.—death of friends. —French visitors and correspondents.—1864-1865. (search)
ll. He will repeal charters and take up the time of Congress about the rights of the negro, but he would not give a hearing to the ten thousand loyal men of Louisiana. Doolittle claimed that the vote of Louisiana was needed to ratify the thirteenth amendment to the Constitution; and Sumner replied that only nineteen loyal States were required to ratify it, rejecting from the whole number the States in rebellion, He maintained the same view in his letter to the New York Evening Post, Sept. 28, 185. (Works, vol. IX. pp. 489-492.) The same point was involved in his speech, July 12, 1862, on a constitutional quorum of the Senate. Works, vol. VII. pp. 169-175. at the same time charging Doolittle with again setting himself upon the side of slavery, and by his interpretation seeking to arrest the great march of human freedom. Doolittle retorted that Sumner had opposed the thirteenth amendment—a charge which the latter repelled with emphasis, declaring that he had given that meas