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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 50: last months of the Civil War.—Chase and Taney, chief-justices.—the first colored attorney in the supreme court —reciprocity with Canada.—the New Jersey monopoly.— retaliation in war.—reconstruction.—debate on Louisiana.—Lincoln and Sumner.—visit to Richmond.—the president's death by assassination.—Sumner's eulogy upon him. —President Johnson; his method of reconstruction.—Sumner's protests against race distinctions.—death of friends. —French visitors and correspondents.—1864-1865. (search)
les, and Usher against it. The President took the papers without expressing an opinion. Sumner was quickly informed of what had transpired in the Cabinet— as appears by his interview the next day with Welles—and he counted at this time on the President's decision in favor of equal suffrage, irrespective of race. This statement as to Stanton's draft and Sumner's relation to it rests on Welles's articles in the Galaxy April and May, 1872, pp. 525-531, 666,667. Welles in Hartford Times, March 19, 1872; Sumner's Works, vol. IX. p. 479. Mr. Johnson was, during the weeks following his accession, waited upon by delegations to express their sympathy and confidence. To these he talked with a certain vigor, but with looseness, declaring, with repetition, that treason is a crime and ought to be punished. His apparent ardor in this direction caused apprehension among thoughtful men, even among those who favored radical measures of reconstruction, but who dreaded a period of vengeance an