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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)
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 52 : Tenure-of-office act.—equal suffrage in the District of Columbia , in new states, in territories, and in reconstructed states.—schools and homesteads for the Freedmen .—purchase of Alaska and of St. Thomas .—death of Sir Frederick Bruce .—Sumner on Fessenden and Edmunds .—West .—1866 -1867 . (search)
the prophetic voices.—lecture tour in the
are we a nation?—
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 56 : San Domingo again.—the senator's first speech.—return of the angina pectoris.—Fish's insult in the Motley Papers .— the senator's removal from the foreign relations committee.—pretexts for the remioval.—second speech against the San Domingo scheme.—the treaty of Washington .—Sumner and Wilson against Butler for governor.—1870 -1871 . (search)
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 57 : attempts to reconcile the President and the senator.—ineligibility of the President for a second term.—the Civil-rights Bill.—sale of arms to France .—the liberal Republican party : Horace Greeley its candidate adopted by the Democrats .—Sumner 's reserve .—his relations with Republican friends and his colleague.—speech against the President .—support of Greeley .—last journey to Europe .—a meeting with Motley .—a night with John Bright.—the President 's re-election.—1871 -1872 . (search)
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 58 : the battle-flag resolution.—the censure by the Massachusetts Legislature .—the return of the angina pectoris. —absence from the senate.—proofs of popular favor.— last meetings with friends and constituents.—the 1872 -1873 . (search)
case.—European friends recalled.—Virginius
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 59 : cordiality of senators.—last appeal for the Civil-rights bill. —death of Agassiz .—guest of the New England Society in New York.—the nomination of Caleb Cushing as chief-justice.—an appointment for the Boston custom-house.— the rescinding of the legislative censure.—last effort in debate.—last day in the senate.—illness, death, funeral, and memorial tributes.—Dec. 1 , 1873 —March 11 , 1874 . (search)