Security and Reconciliation for the Future, Propositions and Arguments on the Reorganization of the Rebel States

by Charles Sumner

Excerpt from Security and Reconciliation for the Future, Propositions and Arguments on the Reorganization of the Rebel States

All persons are equal before the law, so that no person can hold another as a slave and the Congress shall have power to make all laws necessary and proper to arry this declaration into effect everywhere wit in the United States and the jurisdiction thereof.

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36 pages, Hardcover

First published September 27, 2015

About the author

Charles Sumner was an American politician and senator from Massachusetts. As an academic lawyer and a powerful orator, Sumner was the leader of the antislavery forces in Massachusetts and a leader of the Radical Republicans in the United States Senate during the American Civil War working to destroy the Confederacy, free all the slaves, and keep on good terms with Europe. During Reconstruction, he fought to minimize the power of the ex-Confederates and guarantee equal rights to the freedmen.