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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)
ion with Sumner. While at home in the summer the burden of this question was all the time on Sumner's mind. Wherever he met citizens—on the street, at club dinners, or in society—he let slip no opportunity to urge them to action. A large edition of a pamphlet, containing his article in the Atlantic Monthly, already referred to, as well as several resolutions introduced by him in Congress, and his speeches on the proceedings in Arkansas and Louisiana, was distributed among the people. In Boston there was a quick response in a meeting held June 21, 1865, to maintain equal suffrage, at which Theophilus Parsons was in the chair, and Richard H. Dana, Jr., made the principal speech. Mr. Dana, who had been Sumner's critic, now came substantially to his position. Adams's Biography of Dana, vol. II. p. 333. Authentic reports from the South were in the mean time arriving, which verified the worst apprehensions concerning the President's policy, showing that it had revived the old sl