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