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C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Section Eighth: the war of the Rebellion. (search)
don't remember what he had on. His acquaintance is a real acquisition in the dreadful rowdyism of this city, which has become disgusting during the war. Xxxii. In the early part of 1862, after a conference between Mr. Seward and Senator Sumner, negotiations were opened, and finally a Treaty concluded with Great Britain, for a mutual and restricted right of search, and mixed courts, with a view to the suppression of the Slave-trade. It was signed by Mr. Seward and Lord Lyons on the 7th of April. On the 24th of that month Mr. Sumner introduced a Resolution of ratification, accompanied by so convincing a speech, that the ayes and noes were dispensed with, and the resolution agreed to, without a dissenting vote. He had opened his speech by alluding to the fact that Nathaniel Gordon,—a Slave-trader, commanding the Slave-ship Erie,—had been executed in New York on the 21st of the preceding February, being the first in our history to suffer for this immeasurable crime. English lawy
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Xxxii. (search)
Xxxii. In the early part of 1862, after a conference between Mr. Seward and Senator Sumner, negotiations were opened, and finally a Treaty concluded with Great Britain, for a mutual and restricted right of search, and mixed courts, with a view to the suppression of the Slave-trade. It was signed by Mr. Seward and Lord Lyons on the 7th of April. On the 24th of that month Mr. Sumner introduced a Resolution of ratification, accompanied by so convincing a speech, that the ayes and noes were dispensed with, and the resolution agreed to, without a dissenting vote. He had opened his speech by alluding to the fact that Nathaniel Gordon,—a Slave-trader, commanding the Slave-ship Erie,—had been executed in New York on the 21st of the preceding February, being the first in our history to suffer for this immeasurable crime. English lawyers, he continued, dwell much upon treason to the King, which they denounce in a term borrowed from the ancient Romans——lese-majesty; but the Slavetrade i