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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
J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army 1 1 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)
ade the motion to take up the bill. I gave notice that I should speak all the remainder of the session, if necessary, to defeat it. This was the end of the effort, and the bill now sleeps the sleep of death in my committee room. Such is the fate of a measure which began so loftily. But for Sumner's resolute opposition this bill would have undoubtedly passed the Senate, pressed as it was by the anti-English feeling and Irish-American sympathy with Fenianism. At the next session, March 27, 1867 (Congressional Globe, pp. 393, 394), Banks carried through the House unanimously a resolution of sympathy with the Fenian movement for Irish independence, but Sumner retained it with his committee. He also required a similar resolution of Senator Nye to lie over. March 12, 1867, Globe, p. 68. It is one of the many illustrations of his serenity of mind and fidelity to principle in the midst of popular frenzy. An American writer for the Pall Mall Gazette, Dec. 26, 1866, by no means an