The Writings of Carl Schurz/From Charles Sumner, June 15th, 1865

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3447218Speeches, correspondence and political papers of Carl Schurz — From Charles Sumner, June 15thFrederic BancroftCarl Schurz and others

FROM CHARLES SUMNER

Boston, June 15, 1865.

Where is your speech? It is evident that we must create a public sentiment which shall insist upon just safeguards for the future.

You will be listened to—and read. I hope you will give us the opportunity.

There seems to be a strange hallucination at Washington—and a strange logic.

How can the President expect to organize governments on the plan he is pursuing! Then how can he undertake to put a governor over a State, and at the same time say that he has not the power to recognize loyal people as voters!

I deplore the course he has taken. It divides the North, and, if not arrested, will postpone the day of tranquillity and reconciliation.