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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)
Hay's Life of Lincoln, vol. VIII. pp. 419-431. Meantime, in his annual message, December, 1863, and an accompanying proclamation, he defined a comprehensive scheme of reconstruction, which authorized the re-establishment of State governments on the basis of one-tenth at least of the number of votes cast at the last national election, requiring from the voters an oath to support the Constitution and laws and the proclamations concerning slaves. The President's statement in his speech, April 11, 1865, that this plan was approved by every member of the Cabinet at a meeting where he submitted it was at once corrected by Chase, then chief-justice, in a letter to Mr. Lincoln, April 12. Mr. Chase had at the meeting objected to the restriction of suffrage to the class qualified before the rebellion. Schuckers's Life of Chase, pp. 516, 517. The old basis of suffrage, excluding colored persons, was maintained. Under orders from General Banks, issued in January and February, 1864, which pre