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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 45: an antislavery policy.—the Trent case.—Theories of reconstruction.—confiscation.—the session of 1861-1862. (search)
d the latter's proclamation at Port Royal; Colonel John Cochrane's address to his regiment. Nov. 13, 1861, with Mr. Cameron's approving remarks; Wendell Philips's lecture on The War for the Union, in December, 1861; G. S. Boutwell's Address, Dec. 16, 1861, in Speeches and Papers relating to the Rebellion, p. 123. Cameron's annual report in December, 1861. as prepared contained an argument for emancipation and the arming of slaves, but the President required him to modify it. An editor whoby resolution to the exclusion of colored persons from the benefit of the patent laws; but no action was found necessary, as the government under the changed views on the slavery question rejected the doctrine of the Dred Scott decision. 4 Dec. 16, 1861. Works, vol. VI. p. 144. Theories of reconstruction were broached as early as the first year of the war. Among the people, and even among Republican leaders, there was a belief that after the war, likely to be brief, the States in revol