Charles Sumner:
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共 125 题- Statesman Edition VOL. XIII
- Charles Sumner
- HIS COMPLETE WORKS
- CONTENTS OF VOLUME XIII.
- PAGE
- William E. Walker wrote from Trenton, New Jersey:--
- COLORED SUFFRAGE IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
- BILL IN THE SENATE, DECEMBER 4, 1865.
- IMPARTIAL JURORS FOR COLORED PERSONS.
- BILL IN THE SENATE, DECEMBER 4, 1865.
- OATH TO MAINTAIN A REPUBLICAN FORM OF GOVERNMENT IN THE REBEL STATES.
- BILL IN THE SENATE, DECEMBER 4, 1865.
- PART EXECUTION OF THE GUARANTY OF A REPUBLICAN FORM OF GOVERNMENT.
- BILL IN THE SENATE, DECEMBER 4, 1865.
- EQUAL RIGHTS OF COLORED PERSONS TO BE PROTECTED BY THE NATIONAL COURTS.
- REPRESENTATION ACCORDING TO VOTERS.
- SCHEME OF RECONSTRUCTION ON THE BASIS OF EQUAL RIGHTS.
- ADOPTION OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT ABOLISHING SLAVERY.
- FIVE CONDITIONS OF RECONSTRUCTION.
- RIGHTS OF LOYAL CITIZENS, AND A REPUBLICAN GOVERNMENT.
- THE LATE SENATOR COLLAMER.
- SPEECH IN THE SENATE, ON HIS DEATH, DECEMBER 14, 1865.
- Mr. Sumner replied:--
- Mr. Sumner followed:--
- Mr. Sumner spoke again:--
- E. Burt wrote earnestly from Cleveland, Ohio:--
- Thomas D. Hoxsey wrote from Paterson, New Jersey:--
- ENFRANCHISEMENT AND PROTECTION OF FREEDMEN.
- ACTUAL CONDITION OF THE REBEL STATES.
- I also read from another private letter:--
- A recent private letter from Mobile testifies:--
- And still another letter furnishes these revelations:--
- I add a few sentences from a Tennessee paper, “The Southern Loyalist.”
- PROTECTION OF THE NATIONAL DEBT, AND REJECTION OF EVERY REBEL DEBT.
- CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT IN THE SENATE, JANUARY 5, 1866.
- ARTICLE --.
- KIDNAPPING OF FREEDMEN.
- REMARKS IN THE SENATE, ON A RESOLUTION OF INQUIRY, JANUARY 9, 1866.
- January 9th, Mr. Sumner offered the following resolution:--
- THE LATE HENRY WINTER DAVIS.
- ARTICLE IN THE NEW YORK INDEPENDENT, JANUARY 11, 1866.
- POSTSCRIPT.
- DISFRANCHISEMENT INCONSISTENT WITH REPUBLICAN GOVERNMENT.
- IMPANELLING OF JURIES, AND TRIAL OF JEFFERSON DAVIS.
- Mr. Sumner remarked:--
- JOINT RESOLUTION IN THE SENATE, FEBRUARY 2, 1866.
- SPEECH.
- Here are important words of the Amendment:--
- I.
- II.
- And then again he said:--
- Pennsylvania, by her House of Assembly, spoke also to the same effect:--
- Again he says, in positive words:--
- He then exhibits the crowning lesson:--
- Then again, on another occasion, he said:--
- In another place the same illustrious teacher said:--
- III.
- IV.
- President Johnson, in his recent annual message, says:--
- V.
- APPENDIX.
- DEBATE AND VOTES.
- Then again:--
- Mr. Lane, of Indiana, said, in answer to Mr. Sumner:--
- Then of the counter proposition he said:--
- Before the vote he remarked:--
- PRESS AND CORRESPONDENCE.
- So also the correspondent of the Boston _Daily Advertiser_:--
- So also the correspondent of the Pittsburg _Commercial_:--
- So also the correspondent of the Boston _Commonwealth_:--
- So also the correspondent of the New York _Tribune_:--
- The correspondent of the New Orleans _Tribune_ wrote:--
- The correspondent of the New York _Times_ wrote:--
- The New York _Tribune_ said:--
- The Boston _Daily Advertiser_ said:--
- The Adams _Transcript_, of Massachusetts, said:--
- The Rochester _Democrat_, of New York, said:--
- The Dayton _Journal_, of Ohio, said:--
- The Portland _Daily Press_, of Maine, said:--
- The _Progressive Age_, of Belfast, Maine, said:--
- The Bangor _Jeffersonian_, also of Maine, said:--
- CORRESPONDENCE.
- Elizur Wright, the veteran Abolitionist, wrote from Boston:--
- F. W. Pelton wrote from Boston:--
- William Plumer wrote from Lexington:--
- Richard L. Pease, Clerk of Courts, wrote from Edgartown:--
- Rev. Robert Crawford wrote from Deerfield:--
- In another letter, Mr. Washburn wrote:--
- Rev. A. Battles wrote from Bangor, Maine:--
- In another letter, Mr. Smith wrote:--
- F. Hawley wrote with much feeling, from Cazenovia, New York:--
- Alexander Ostrander, a lawyer, wrote from New York:--
- W. H. Ashhurst, an eminent merchant, wrote from Philadelphia:--
- T. E. Hall wrote from Galion, Ohio:--
- Rev. George Duffield wrote from Detroit, Michigan:--
- Jesse W. Fell wrote from Normal, Illinois:--
- James H. Alderman wrote from Jacksonville, Illinois:--
- Worthington G. Snethen, an Abolitionist, of Baltimore, wrote:--
- S. F. Chapman wrote from Alexandria, Virginia:--
- PRESIDENT JOHNSON AND HIS COUNTER MANIFESTATIONS.
- PERSONAL SAFETY.
- DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH THE REPUBLIC OF DOMINICA.
- BILL IN THE SENATE, FEBRUARY 6, 1866.
- PROTECTION OF CIVIL RIGHTS.
- REMARKS IN THE SENATE, FEBRUARY 9, 1866.
- THE CITY OF BOSTON AND MR. SUMNER.
- In reply Mr. Sumner wrote:--
- CHARLES SUMNER.
- POLITICAL EQUALITY WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF COLOR.
- NO COMPROMISE OF HUMAN RIGHTS.
- Then, rising to still higher flight, he cried out:--
- And then again, taking up the reply, he exclaimed:--
- According to Johnson, who is the highest authority, it is defined:--
- This is strong enough; but Mr. Justice Daniel is still more precise:--
- OPPOSITE SIDES ON THE MEANING OF THE PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT.
- FINAL SPEECH IN THE SENATE ON THIS AMENDMENT, MARCH 9, 1866.
- They then proceed:--
- NO MORE STATES WITH THE WORD “WHITE” IN THE STATE CONSTITUTION.
- The Secretary read the amendment, namely:--
- April 24th, the debate was renewed, when Mr. Sumner said:--
- LETTER TO THE BOSTON DAILY ADVERTISER, MARCH 15, 1866.
- TO THE EDITORS OF THE BOSTON DAILY ADVERTISER.
- I am, Gentlemen, your faithful servant,
- CHARLES SUMNER.
- FOOTNOTES