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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 51: reconstruction under Johnson's policy.—the fourteenth amendment to the constitution.—defeat of equal suffrage for the District of Columbia, and for Colorado, Nebraska, and Tennessee.—fundamental conditions.— proposed trial of Jefferson Davis.—the neutrality acts. —Stockton's claim as a senator.—tributes to public men. —consolidation of the statutes.—excessive labor.— address on Johnson's Policy.—his mother's death.—his marriage.—1865-1866. (search)
f the proposed State expressly confined suffrage to white male citizens. March 12 and 13, April 17, 19, and 24, May 21, 1866. Works, vol. x. pp. 346-374. He proposed as a fundamental condition, framed after the model of the Missouri restriction of slavery, that there should be no denial of the elective franchise, or of any other rights, on account of race or color in the proposed State; and in his view the condition when accepted would be perpetually obligatory. Sumner proposed. Feb. 25, 1865, to apply the same fundamental condition to Louisiana, following the Missouri Compromise precedent. (Works, vol. IX. p. 317.) The validity of such conditions was treated by him and other senators in debates, Jan. 14 and Feb. 17, 1870. Works, vol. XIII. pp. 216-221, 331-335. Western senators from sectional sympathy pressed the admission; and some senators, like Wilson, acting from political considerations—which, unhappily, are apt to enter into such questions—were desirous of making a