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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 3 3 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4 1 1 Browse Search
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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)
onstant in the attitude of justice. June 26. Works, vol. x. pp. 472-474. The Banks bill passed July 26, two days before the session closed, and was sent at once to the Senate, where Chandler undertook to force its passage, but in vain. Chandler, at the next session, undertook to carry a similar bill in the Senate, but was defeated in the attempt by Sumner, who was now assisted by Morton. (March 23 and 25, 1867, Congressional Globe, pp. 290, 328.) Sumner wrote to George Bemis, Dec. 12, 1866: You noticed the allusion to the neutrality laws in the President's message; bad enough. He seemed to invite the repeal. To-day I laid the subject before my committee. The feeling was strong to stand on the ancient ways. The prevailing idea was that we had better bury the bill in the committee room, and not call attention to it by a report. What took place was related by Sumner some months later, in answer to an inquiry from Lieber:— I thought that I had told you the fate of th