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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4 1 1 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 1 1 Browse Search
Edward H. Savage, author of Police Recollections; Or Boston by Daylight and Gas-Light ., Boston events: a brief mention and the date of more than 5,000 events that transpired in Boston from 1630 to 1880, covering a period of 250 years, together with other occurrences of interest, arranged in alphabetical order 1 1 Browse Search
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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)
uality of suffrage in all the States, whether ever engaged in the rebellion or not; In the Senate, July 12, 1867; Works, vol. XI. pp. 409-413. Dec. 11, 1867; March 9 and 20. 1868: Congressional Globe, pp. 123, 1742, 1743, 2007. Letters, Sept. 8, 1867, and Oct. 3, 1868; Works, vol. XII. pp. 184. 515, 516. and he desired also the election of colored men to Congress, believing that their presence there would be a constant testimony and argument for equal rights. Letters, June 22 and July 3, 1868; Works, vol. XII. pp. 439, 441, 442. In the debates on reconstruction, as in those on slavery, it was noted in the Senate how often Sumner's Republican associates, first rejecting his views, afterwards accepted them; and though disagreeing with him in a body when he announced these views, they all came later, even within two years, if not at heart concurring with him, to act and vote with him. Dixon in the Senate. March 11, 1867; Congressional Globe, pp. 51, 52. Buckalew called h