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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, Chapter 28 : the city Oration,—July 4 , 1845 .—Age 34 . (search)
the true grandeur of nations.—an argument against war.—
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 37 : the national election of 1852 .—the Massachusetts constitutional convention .—final defeat of the coalition.— 1852 -1853 . (search)
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 39 : the debate on Toucey 's bill.—vindication of the antislavery enterprise.—first visit to the West .—defence of foreign-born citizens.—1854 -1855 . (search)
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 40 : outrages in Kansas .—speech on Kansas .—the Brooks assault.—1855 -1856 . (search)
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 43 : return to the Senate .—1859 -1860 . (search)
the barbarism of slavery.—Popular welcomes.—Lincoln's election.—
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, chapter 20 (search)
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)
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)
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)
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 55 : Fessenden 's death.—the public debt.—reduction of postage.— Mrs. Lincoln 's pension.—end of reconstruction.—race discriminations in naturalization.—the Chinese .—the senator's record.—the Cuban Civil War .—annexation of San Domingo .—the treaties.—their use of the navy.—interview with the presedent.—opposition to the annexation; its defeat.—Mr. Fish .—removal of Motley .—lecture on Franco-Prussian War.—1869 -1870 . (search)