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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)
om. The President had much at heart at this time a plan for colonizing emancipated slaves in tropical countries,—calling the attention of Congress to it, directing diplomatic correspondence, and engaging in an attempt to settle a ship-load of the colored people, collected in Washington and its vicinity, on lie de Vache in the West Indies. The expedition came to grief, and the President from that time saw the impracticability of his plan. New York Tribune, Aug. 25, 1862; September 13 and 14. Sumner discreetly avoided any direct issue with him as to this idea, well assured that he himself would come to see that it was a delusion. The third day of the session Sumner called attention to General Halleck's exclusion of fugitive slaves from his camp and lines, and severely condemned it. The same day he took occasion, in supporting Wilson's resolution for the release of fugitive slaves from the Washington jail, to denounce the slave code of the District of Columbia, with the view of