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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)
epartment, limited its term to one year after the war, and reduced its scope. In this form it passed without debate or division, and was one of the last acts approved by Mr. Lincoln. General O. O. Howard was appointed commissioner. The bureau became a distinctive part of Republican policy, and a year later it was found necessary to enlarge its powers, and strike out the limitation of its term, by a bill which passed Congress over President Johnson's veto. The bureau was maintained till Jan. 1, 1869, and did good service as a bridge from slavery to freedom. Works, vol. VIII. pp. 475-524; Wilson's History of the Rise and Fall of the Slave Power, vol. III. pp. 455-504. Sumner kept up continuously the contest for civil equality which he began in the session of 1861-1862. The street railway companies of the District of Columbia provided special cars for colored people, and excluded them from all others; and the exclusion was rigidly enforced under circumstances involving inconv