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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)
ished the bill pressed in the Senate; and a similar testimony came from James M. Scovil of New Jersey. On the other hand, the most eminent physician of Boston then living protested, June 10, 1864, in a letter to the senator, against any interference by Congress, stating that he was the owner of one thousand shares of the stock of the company which held the monopoly. Mr. Greeley attacked the monopoly in a leader printed in the New York Tribune, July 31. 1865. The next session he made, February 14, 1865, an elaborate argument against the monopoly, exposing its character, and treating the constitutional points raised in its defence. Works, vol. IX. pp. 238-265. The New York Tribune, Feb. 21, 1865, called the speech a concise, luminous, and masterly elucidation of the subject. George Bancroft, wrote to Sumner that the speech was masterly, practical, and statesmanlike. It was proposed to obtain votes for the Thirteenth Constitutional Amendment from Democratic members from New Jerse