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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)
xes slur quelque chose de noble et de grand. On peut dire enfin de lui qu'il slut servir á la fois, ce qui est parfois malaise, son pays et l'humanite, qu'il defendit toute sa vie les interets des États-Unis et ceux d'une race opprimee, et reussit á confondre les deux causes qui lui étaient les plus cheres, celle de laemancipation et celle de l Union. The Marquis de Chambrun arrived early in 1865, commended to Sumner by his father-in-law, Baron de Corcelle, The baronment Sumner. July 14, 1866, a lamp from the Roman catacombs, on which was the figure of a shepherd caring for one of his flock, the giver thinking it appropriate to the senator as protector of the blacks. Upon Sumner's death, the lamp came into the possession of his friend, F. W. Bird.—friend of Tocqueville, and at one time French ambassador at Rome, whose acquaintance Sumner had made in Paris. The marquis was from that time a frequent visitor at Sumner's lodgings, and he continued for many years to live in Wash<