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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4 1 1 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 1 1 Browse Search
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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, chapter 10 (search)
. The House passed at this session a bill concerning the rights of naturalized citizens. It came up for consideration late in January, and was voted upon April 20, 1868. N. P. Banks, chairman of the committee on foreign affairs, reported it, and led in the debate. He had been a conspicuous Know-Nothing, and was elected to Congress in 1854 by that secret order. He made a speech the next winter in the House in favor of its methods of secrecy and against foreigners and Catholics. Dec. 18, 1854, Congressional Globe, App. p. 48. Sumner had maintained the rights of foreign-born citizens against the Know-Nothing or American party. Speech in Faneuil Hall, Nov. 2, 1855; Works, vol. IV. pp. 74-80; ante, vol. III. pp. 421-423. When accused in the debate. July 18 and 22, 1868, of being less sensitive to the rights of naturalized citizens than to those of the colored people, he referred to his speech in Faneuil Hall, and read extracts from it. Globe, pp. 4208, 4331, 4332. He continu