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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)
tare Charybdim.—the first connecting clemency with stability in the State, and the second warning against extremes—which, doubtful in origin and running into variations, have obtained a remarkable currency among proverbs. Atlantic Monthly, December, 1865; Works, vol. IX. pp. 503-544. The classical explanations at the beginning drew some criticisms from James A. Garfield, then a member of Congress, which found their way into the New York Evening Post, and were sent as printed by Garfield to Sdisarmed insurgents to political power without the surest guaranty of the rights of loyal persons, whether white or black, and especially the freedmen. Between the time of Mr. Lincoln's death and the beginning of the session of Congress in December, 1865, Sumner wrote several brief letters and communications with a view to promote the cause of equal suffrage, which found their way to the public—some to colored people in the South who sought his counsel and sympathy, May 13 (Works, vol. IX<
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, chapter 10 (search)
kindred enterprises, to develop commercial needs sufficient to absorb the full amount of the existing currency. During the last year of the Civil War it became evident that General Grant would, if he chose, be a candidate for the Presidency in 1838, with the chances altogether in favor of his election; but it was quite uncertain whether he was to be the Republican or the Democratic candidate. His last vote at a national election had been for Buchanan. His report read in Congress in December, 1865, on the state of the South, his accompanying of President Johnson on the latter's political tour in 1866, and his acceptance of the portfolio of the war department upon Mr. Stanton's removal were interpreted as showing leanings towards the party with which he had acted before the war. But his later misunderstandings with President Johnson, growing out of the manner of his leaving the war department in January, 1868, led to a bitter antagonism between them; and henceforth the general was