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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)
ahead on this account, pray indicate it precisely, that I may do what I can to meet it. You know that I am no partisan of protection, and that on that whole question I am absolutely independent. And again a week later:— I do not understand your anxiety about protection in New England. Wilson and myself are not its partisans, and I am ready to move in any policy which is liberal and just,—especially to the West. He recurred to the subject briefly in a letter to John Bright, May 21, 1866. post, p. 289. W. D. Kelley, in his eulogy in the House, April 27, 1874, took exception to Sumner's theories of trade and finance,—free trade and the limitation of the medium of exchange to a volume of paper money so restricted that it might ever be interchangeable with gold. Mr. Kelley had probably no evidence of Sumner's views except his public action. Sumner was with the other senators present at Mr. Lincoln's inauguration, March 4. The Senate, meeting the same day to act on the <
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 51: reconstruction under Johnson's policy.—the fourteenth amendment to the constitution.—defeat of equal suffrage for the District of Columbia, and for Colorado, Nebraska, and Tennessee.—fundamental conditions.— proposed trial of Jefferson Davis.—the neutrality acts. —Stockton's claim as a senator.—tributes to public men. —consolidation of the statutes.—excessive labor.— address on Johnson's Policy.—his mother's death.—his marriage.—1865-1866. (search)
ssion. The Territory of Colorado, seeking admission at this time, contained less than one hundred colored inhabitants. Its entire population was very small, and the proceedings for forming a constitution had been quite irregular. Sumner in several speeches opposed the application on the ground of irregularity and insufficient numbers, but chiefly because the constitution of the proposed State expressly confined suffrage to white male citizens. March 12 and 13, April 17, 19, and 24, May 21, 1866. Works, vol. x. pp. 346-374. He proposed as a fundamental condition, framed after the model of the Missouri restriction of slavery, that there should be no denial of the elective franchise, or of any other rights, on account of race or color in the proposed State; and in his view the condition when accepted would be perpetually obligatory. Sumner proposed. Feb. 25, 1865, to apply the same fundamental condition to Louisiana, following the Missouri Compromise precedent. (Works, vol.