[39] It was understood that he had not favored the principal anti-slavery measures of the Thirty-seventh Congress, on the ground measures of the Thirty-seventh Congress, on the ground that they were premature
[40] The foregoing-statistics have been taken from Mr. Elaine, Twenty Years of Congress, i. 441-444.
[41] Later, legislation enabled the soldiers in the field to vote; but at this time they could not do so.
[42] For account of these matters of retaliation and protection of negroes, see N. and H. vol. vi. ch. xxi.