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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)
ch as I am against the premature recognition of Louisiana, I will hold my peace if I can secure a rule for the other States, so that we may be saved from daily anxiety with regard to their condition. There is other evidence that Sumner, to avoid a contest with the President, would have consented to the admission of Louisiana at this time, with a positive disclaimer that such admission was not to be a precedent, and with satisfactory conditions as to other States. Boston Commonwealth, March 11, 1865; Advertiser, Jan. 7, 1871; ante, p. 205. The narrative now reaches, so far as the Senate is concerned, the debate on Trumbull's resolution reported Feb. 18, 1865, from the committee on the judiciary, recognizing as the legitimate government of Louisiana the one formed under Mr. Lincoln's direction and supervision. During the session Ashley's reconstruction bill, in different forms, was before the House (January 16, February 21 and 22), but it came to no result. Each draft confine