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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)
try, which long resisted the spirit of the age—the pretension of the State of New Jersey to levy exceptional tolls on passengers and freight passing through it, between New York and Philadelphia, which were not levied on passengers and freight passing from point to point within the State, June 9 and Dec. 5, 1862, Works, vol. VII. p. 121; Dec. 22, 1863, Congressional Globe, p. 76; April 25, 1864, Feb. 14, 18, 23, 24, and March 3, 1865, Globe, pp. 790. 889, 1008, 1009, 1059, 1064, 1339; May 29, 1866, Globe, p. 2870; Works, vol. IX. pp. 237-265; vol. x. pp. 469-471. Its legislature also invested one corporation with the exclusive power of maintaining a railway within the State between those two cities. This corporation pushed its pretension to the extent of denying the right of the United States to transport between those cities soldiers and military stores over other railways. The monopoly sheltered itself behind State rights; it had at its command ample capital, and could always
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)
an opponents to the attitude of apologists. He had been almost alone in the contest, with only one or two constant supporters in the Senate; but his spirit was undaunted, and his triumph was to come. His other efforts for equal suffrage at this session need only be noted here. Remarks, Feb. 15, 1866, on a petition of colored men, January 19, in relation to the credentials of W. Marvin, senator from Florida (Works, vol. x. pp. 109. 110); proposed amendment to the reconstruction bill, May 29, 1866 (Works, vol. x. p. 468); remarks on time and reconstruction, May 2, 1866 (Works, vol. x. pp. 428-431); letter to a committee of the District of Columbia, April 14, 1866 (Works, vol. x. pp. 417, 418); letter to the American Antislavery Society, May, 1866 (Works, vol. x. p. 427). Other references by him to the condition of the South are a letter on delay in the removal of disabilities, May, 1866 (Works, vol. x. p. 461), and remarks on the interruption of the right of petition, May 24,