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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)
ellion had vaulted into the Presidential chair. The Thirty-ninth Congress met Dec. 4, 1865. Its members had been mostly chosen at the time of Mr. Lincoln's second election, and the Republicans held each branch by a more than two-thirds majority; but it was not yet known how far the President's course might divide them. His message was moderate and plausible so far as language was concerned. It was praised as a state paper in the New York Nation, December 14, and Harper's Weeekly, Dec. 23, 1865, and Jan. 20, 1866. A large body of Republicans, who subsequently went against him, still adhered to him, and the message gave them hope of a change in his policy. Before the message was received, and as soon as he could get the floor on the first day, Sumner offered a series (ten in number) of resolutions covering the whole subject of reconstruction. Works, vol. x. pp. 1-37. For similar resolutions on reconstruction at later sessions compare those of Dec. 5, 1866. Works, vol. X