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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 45: an antislavery policy.—the Trent case.—Theories of reconstruction.—confiscation.—the session of 1861-1862. (search)
ing remarks; Wendell Philips's lecture on The War for the Union, in December, 1861; G. S. Boutwell's Address, Dec. 16, 1861, in Speeches and Papers relating to the Rebellion, p. 123. Cameron's annual report in December, 1861. as prepared contained an argument for emancipation and the arming of slaves, but the President required him to modify it. An editor who was then and had long been Sumner's critic, William Schouler, author of the History of Massachusetts in the Civil War, wrote, Feb. 18, 1869, of this speech:— I am struck with wonder at the clear comprehension which you had of the magnitude of the war at the beginning, and of the true and only means by which it could be conducted to a proper termination. Your speech reads to-day like a sacred prophecy. For it you were assailed; but it was true nevertheless, and the country came at length to your defence by adopting your statesmanship. Shortly after the convention (in less than three weeks), Sumner delivered an add