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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 45: an antislavery policy.—the Trent case.—Theories of reconstruction.—confiscation.—the session of 1861-1862. (search)
s not yet ready for the repeal of the Fugitive Slave Act; but meantime Sumner watched every opportunity to restrict its operation and prepare the way for its repeal. He was strenuous in preventing any recognition of it in new legislation; Feb. 25, 1862. Works, vol. VI. pp. 378-380. and in calling attention to the attempts of masters to recover slaves in Washington, he introduced a resolution to prevent their seizure in the District of Columbia, to which the clause in the Constitution as t an article in the Atlantic Monthly, October, 1863 (Works, vol. VII. pp. 493-546), to which Montgomery Blair, Attorney-General, replied in a speech at Rockville, Md., October 3. The resolutions, however, were supported in the New York Tribune, Feb. 25 and March 15, 1862, by O. A. Brownson, the Catholic writer, and by a public meeting in Cooper Institute, March 6, 1862, where James A. Hamilton took the chair. (Works, vol. VI. pp. 376, 381-384.) Sumner's article was approved in letters from j