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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 49: letters to Europe.—test oath in the senate.—final repeal of the fugitive-slave act.—abolition of the coastwise slave-trade.—Freedmen's Bureau.—equal rights of the colored people as witnesses and passengers.—equal pay of colored troops.—first struggle for suffrage of the colored people.—thirteenth amendment of the constitution.— French spoliation claims.—taxation of national banks.— differences with Fessenden.—Civil service Reform.—Lincoln's re-election.—parting with friends.—1863-1864. (search)
ce. In duty to our country and in duty to God, I plead against any such thing. We must be against slavery in its original shape, and in all its brood of prejudice and error. Four years later, in the Senate, Mr. Doolittle, distinguishing Sumner from his colleague Wilson, who had at the beginning taken an opposite view, said of Sumner that he had always been in favor of pushing negro suffrage; he was the originator of that notion; he is the master of that new school of reconstruction. June 6, 1868, Congressional Globe, p. 2898. Sherman in the debate, Feb. 10, 1870 (Globe, p. 1181), put Sumner as the very first in the Senate to advocate and maintain the necessity of giving to the colored people of the Southern States the right to vote. Public opinion in the free States was now calling for a universal prohibition of slavery. Sumner presented the petition of the Women's National League, with one hundred thousand signatures, praying for an Act of Congress emancipating all persons
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 52: Tenure-of-office act.—equal suffrage in the District of Columbia, in new states, in territories, and in reconstructed states.—schools and homesteads for the Freedmen.—purchase of Alaska and of St. Thomas.—death of Sir Frederick Bruce.—Sumner on Fessenden and Edmunds.—the prophetic voices.—lecture tour in the West.—are we a nation?—1866-1867. (search)
his. March 16; Congressional Globe, p. 170. The Democratic senators were apt to harass their Republican opponents with thrusts of this kind. Hendricks said (Jan. 30, 1868, Congressional Globe, p. 860): I said in the Senate a year or two ago that the course of things is this: the senator from Massachusetts steps out boldly, declares his doctrine, and then he is approached [reproached?], and finally he governs. He referred probably to his remarks, June 24, 1864. Doolittle's remarks (June 6, 1868, Globe. p. 2898, and Feb 9, 1869. Globe. p. 1031) were to the same effect. During the debates on reconstruction and suffrage, Sumner's style of treating his Republican opponents was not altogether agreeable to them. He had an insight into the rebellion which they had not had, and he saw what Johnson was before they did. Tardily they came to his positions, forced by circumstances and popular pressure. When in pressing forward he encountered their resistance, he was apt to remind th