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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 44: Secession.—schemes of compromise.—Civil War.—Chairman of foreign relations Committee.—Dr. Lieber.—November, 1860– April, 1861. (search)
reply was guarded. Coleman's Life of J. J. Crittenden, pp. 238, 239. In this speech he maintained the inability of Congress to prohibit slavery in the Territories in the face of the Dred Scott decision, although he had denied its validity in a public address at Philadelphia, in which he had assailed the Buchanan Administration for its efforts to palm off as law extra-judicial opinions of a slaveholding bench of judges. Adams, in a letter to F. W. Bird, Feb. 16, 1861, though regarding Judge Taney's opinion as a dictum, thought it sure to be adopted by the court. Lincoln's Administration, however, rejected it altogether, and treated negroes as citizens. Opinion of Edward Bates, Attorney-General; McPherson's History of the Rebellion, p. 378; Sumner's Works, vol. v. pp. 497, 498. Mr. Adams, in letters to his constituents, treated as an unrepealed and unrescinded contract Letter to E. L. Pierce, Jan. 1. 1861. Mr. Adams's action was reviewed by E. L. Pierce in the Boston Atlas an
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)
Chapter 50: last months of the Civil War.—Chase and Taney, chief-justices.—the first colored attorney in the s confirmation by the Senate. The death of Chief-Justice Taney, which had been anticipated for some months, d expressed to him the desire that he should succeed Taney, Sumner wrote, November 20:— I am not a candidppointment ought to have been made on the evening of Taney's funeral; but sooner or later Mr. Chase will be nominated. The bill to place a bust of Taney in the Supreme Court room encountered the opposition of Sumner, Wld occur only where the public feeling was intense. Taney's mind, as his Dred Scot opinion shows, was pervertehis seat, a resolution for placing the busts of both Taney and Chase (the latter having recently died) in the Sdebate. Sumner showed his continued opposition to Taney's bust by his bill, Jan, 13, 1874, which provided on of his race ever admitted there—a race which was by Taney's decision excluded from citizenship, and therefore