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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)
ckers's Life of Chase, p. 519. But this does not appear in Welles's account of the meeting. On the evening of that Friday, aay's Life of Lincoln, vol. x. pp. 283-285. According to Mr. Welles, the President said, There were men in Congress who if tSumner and other gentlemen, members of the House, and to Mr. Welles. Sumner interrupted the reading with the inquiry whetheton, Dennison, and Speed for the inclusion, and McCulloch, Welles, and Usher against it. The President took the papers withothe Cabinet— as appears by his interview the next day with Welles—and he counted at this time on the President's decision inas to Stanton's draft and Sumner's relation to it rests on Welles's articles in the Galaxy April and May, 1872, pp. 525-531, 666,667. Welles in Hartford Times, March 19, 1872; Sumner's Works, vol. IX. p. 479. Mr. Johnson was, during the weeks .The President was doing what Seward had advised, and what Welles and McCulloch cordially approved. Stanton was friendly en