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Caroline E. Whitcomb, History of the Second Massachusetts Battery of Light Artillery (Nims' Battery): 1861-1865, compiled from records of the Rebellion, official reports, diaries and rosters 6 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 5. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 2 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 2 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4 2 0 Browse Search
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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.—the prophetic voices.—lecture tour in the West.—are we a nation?—1866-1867. (search)
The latter apparently pleased at his friend's curiosity, answered, My father. In intent and idea it was the sequel of the senator's speeches on reconstruction. It upheld the power and duty of the national government to establish through the whole country absolute equality of civil and political rights beyond any possibility of abridgment by the States acting under false traditions or prejudices of race. Rejecting the term federal, which had been improperly substituted for national, B. J. Lossing, in a letter, Nov. 9, 1868, approved the preference which Sumner gave to the term national. he developed the idea of a nation,—namely, a people united, though perhaps of different races, under one government; and that unity symbolized by a common name and common emblems, and including as an essential element the protection of the rights of all,—one sovereignty, one citizenship, and one people. To illustrate his theme, he traced the process of unification in history, whereby great nation