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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)
for commemorating the deceased. Works, vol. IX. pp. 361, 362. Sumner called on Mrs. Lincoln several times to give her his sympathies in her terrible sorrow. She sent him, before she left Washington, two souvenirs of the late President—one a likeness of John Bright, which Mr. Lincoln had prized as representing so noble and so good a friend of our cause, and the other the President's cane. This last gift was accompanied with this note:— Executive Mansion, Tuesday Morning, May 9, 1865. My dear Mr. Sumner—Your unwavering kindness to my idolized husband, and the great regard he entertained for you, prompts me to offer for your acceptance this simple relic, which being connected with his blessed memory I am sure you will prize. I am endeavoring to regain my strength sufficiently to be able to leave here in a few days. I go hence broken-hearted, with every hope almost in life crushed. Notwithstanding my utter desolation through life, the memory of the cherished frien<