Lincoln's Plan of Reconstruction

by Charles H. McCarthy

[284]. Ibid., p. 125.

[285]. See p. [73], ante.

[286]. McPherson’s Pol. Hist., pp. 322–323.

[287]. Memoir of Charles Sumner by E. L. Pierce, Vol. IV. pp. 74–75.

[288]. General Richard Taylor in Destruction and Reconstruction, p. 245.

[289]. Blaine, Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. II. p. 114.

[290]. Memoir of Sumner by E. L. Pierce, Vol. IV. p. 143.

[291]. Mr. Sumner, notwithstanding this view, proposed to enact the Emancipation Proclamation into a law. See pp. [272]–273 infra.

[292]. N. and H., Vol. IX. pp. 335–336.

[293]. In his Theory of our National Existence (passim) and in the American Law Review for January, 1865, Mr. John C. Hurd has much keen criticism of the reconstruction theories of Sumner and others.