FOOTNOTES:
[70] Memories of Men who Saved the Union, by Donn Piatt, p. 150.
[71] Cong. Globe, 1863-64, part 2, p. 1314.
[72] Vol. i, p. 187.
[73] Scribner's Magazine, July, 1909.
[74] In a letter to the writer.
[75] The particulars referred to by Julian were subsequently made public by Mr. A. G. Riddle in his Recollections of War-Time, p. 325. Two Democrats were induced to vote in the affirmative and one other to be absent when the vote was taken. One of them was induced to vote right by the promise of an office for his brother; another was facing an election contest in the coming Congress where his own seat was claimed by a Republican opponent. The Democrat was promised favorable consideration by the Republicans before the testimony in the case was examined. The third was counsel for a railroad against whose interests a bill was about to be reported in the Senate, which bill was in the control of Charles Sumner. The bill would not be reported, or not reported soon, if the Congressman should be absent when the vote was taken. These arrangements, Riddle says, were negotiated by James M. Ashley, of Ohio, in whose hands the Republicans of the House had deposited their honor for the time being. If the three Democrats had voted in the negative, the result would have been 117 to 59, one less than the necessary two thirds. But that would only have delayed the adoption of the amendment till the next Congress.
CHAPTER XV
RECONSTRUCTION