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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 4 4 Browse Search
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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)
l after a vote of both houses, Works, vol. VIII. p. 470. He reaffirmed the same doctrine in resolutions, Feb. 23, 1865 (Works, vol. IX. p. 311); and again March 8, 1865 (Works, vol. IX. p. 340). Resolutions of a similar character were proposed by Garfield and Dawes in the House, June 13 and 22. 1864.—a precaution against hasty and exceptional action by one body without the other's concurrence, which Congress two years later found it wise to adopt. The resolution passed the House Feb. 20, 1866, and the Senate March 2. A few days later the question came up directly on a resolution introduced by Lane of Kansas, to recognize the State government of Arkansas initiated under the President's direction, when Sumner addressed the Senate. He set forth as objections, that the proposed government was organized irregularly under a military order, and by only a small minority of the people, and within a territory still under military occupation, subject to hostile raids, and excluded by l