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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4 1 1 Browse Search
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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 51: reconstruction under Johnson's policy.—the fourteenth amendment to the constitution.—defeat of equal suffrage for the District of Columbia, and for Colorado, Nebraska, and Tennessee.—fundamental conditions.— proposed trial of Jefferson Davis.—the neutrality acts. —Stockton's claim as a senator.—tributes to public men. —consolidation of the statutes.—excessive labor.— address on Johnson's Policy.—his mother's death.—his marriage.—1865-1866. (search)
med by many associates the most brilliant man in public life, he paid a still warmer tribute, placing him foremost among all the sons of his State, and regarding his death as a national calamity. At this session Congress passed the bill for the revision and consolidation of the statutes of the United States—a measure which Sumner was the first to propose, making the effort at his first session, and keeping it alive by successive resolutions. Ante, vol. III. p. 275; Boston Advertiser, July 9, 1874. Sumner spoke briefly on the codification of the customs laws, July 16, 1866. Congressional Globe, p. 3828. His interest in it continued, but he did not live to see it consummated. Caleb Cushing, appointed at his instance as one of the commissioners to execute the work, sought his counsels as to the best plan, and wrote to him:— I desire at the outset to express my admiration of the catholic and elevated spirit you have manifested in the whole matter, not less than my profound an