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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)
, vol. VIII, pp 42-50. As the rebel debt was buoyed up in Europe by the hope that it would finally be assumed by our government, he introduced and carried a resolution affirming that the United States would never recognize it in any way. Feb. 17, 1865 Works, vol. IX. p. 269. Sumner attacked at different sessions the worst monopoly ever known in the country, which long resisted the spirit of the age—the pretension of the State of New Jersey to levy exceptional tolls on passengers and fn 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 <