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The Daily Dispatch: February 8, 1865., [Electronic resource] 6 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4 2 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: February 6, 1865., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
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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)
n illness kept him from his seat, a resolution for placing the busts of both Taney and Chase (the latter having recently died) in the Supreme Court room passed the Senate unanimously and without debate. Sumner showed his continued opposition to Taney's bust by his bill, Jan, 13, 1874, which provided one for Chase only; while Stevenson's, Dec. 8, 1873, included both chiefjustices. It was Sumner's felicity to move, February 1, 1865, in the Supreme Court, the admission as counsellor of J. S. Rock, a colored man, the first one of his race ever admitted there—a race which was by Taney's decision excluded from citizenship, and therefore from admission to that tribunal. Works, vol. IX. pp. 229-232. Sumner had advised with the new chief-justice in advance, and was assured of a favorable result. The public journals and some of his correspondents—Mr. Cobden among them-took note of the event as connected with the senator's career, and as an important step in the enfranchisement of the
The Daily Dispatch: February 6, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
vice. Colonel Geo. R. Latham, of the Sixth West Virginia cavalry, has been dismissed from the service of the United States, on the finding of a court-martial, for allowing the post of New creek, West Virginia, to be surprised by rebel raiders some time ago, and its garrison captured. New York and Pennsylvania both have commissioners at Washington to protest against their heavy share of the draft. A novel scene was witnessed in the Supreme Court-room at Washington, Wednesday: J. S. Rock, a negro lawyer, of Massachusetts, being admitted, on the motion of Hon. Charles Sumner, as a practitioner. The Yankee House has passed a bill for the construction of a ship canal around the Falls of Niagara. The general officers in the regular United States army now are: Lieutenant-General Grant, Major-Generals H. W. Halleck, William T. Sherman, George G. Meade, Philip H. Sheridan and George H. Thomas, Brigadier-Generals Irvin McDowell, William S. Rosecrans, Philip St. George Co
The Daily Dispatch: February 8, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
The Yankee papers announce, with considerable ecstasy, that J. S. Rock, a negro lawyer of Massachusetts, has been admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of the United States, on the motion of Hon. Charles Sumner. We congratulate Mr. Rock upon the recognition of his independence by the United States Supreme Court. TMr. Rock upon the recognition of his independence by the United States Supreme Court. There being no law at present in that country, he will not find the practice of his profession difficult. We advise him, however, to shun low company. An introduction by Charley Sumner is beneath the dignity of any intelligent gentleman of African descent. The Republicans of the United States must no suppose that the Confedehilosophers to be superior in virtue, in refinement, in valor, to themselves. We rejoice to behold the practical acknowledgment of this fact in the admission of Mr. Rock to the bar of the United States Supreme Court. We should have been still more happy if they had made him Chief Justice. We should rejoice to see the President