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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)
s objections, that the proposed government was organized irregularly under a military order, and by only a small minority of the people, and within a territory still under military occupation, subject to hostile raids, and excluded by law from ordinary commercial intercourse; but the stress of his argument was on his chief proposition, that Congress alone—that is, the two houses (the President in this, as in other legislation, holding the veto power)—could readmit the revolted States. June 13, 1864; Works, vol. IX. pp. 1-25. At the next session, Feb. 17, 1865, Sumner contended against the recognition of a State government set up in Virginia, on the ground that the Legislature was little more than the Common Council of Alexandria, and that the greater part of the State was as yet in the possession of an armed rebellion. Works, vol. IX. pp. 266-268. The speech was a strong statement, briefer than most of his speeches on important topics, and it avoided any direct issue with the Pr