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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)
martial law, was too much a field of war to admit of the free action of citizens, or to allow civil authority to be more than nominal. Such governments if good for one purpose must be good for all—for representation in Congress and in the electoral college, as well as for State autonomy. After all the struggle to create them, beginning in 1862, Congress (the President signing with a caveat) recognized that they had no substantial basis or title to respect by the joint resolution adopted Feb. 8, 1865, which declared that the eleven rebel States, including Virginia, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Tennessee, were in such a condition at the time of the national election, Nov. 8, 1864, that no valid election for electors was held in them, and therefore no electoral votes from them should be received or counted. Clearly, therefore, they were not then, and had not been since the secession, in a condition to carry on State governments, or to be represented in Congress. The premature attempts a