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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 48: Seward.—emancipation.—peace with France.—letters of marque and reprisal.—foreign mediation.—action on certain military appointments.—personal relations with foreigners at Washington.—letters to Bright, Cobden, and the Duchess of Argyll.—English opinion on the Civil War.—Earl Russell and Gladstone.—foreign relations.—1862-1863. (search)
ant-General, to Union soldiers at Lake Providence, La., April 8, 1863, where he was organizing colored troops. to the soldiers. Our policy is fixed; there can be no retreat. Let us have the God-speed of all who hate slavery! To Mr. Cobden, April 26:— I see but one course for England. Let her act upon her antislavery history, and let the slave-mongers know that they can expect nothing from her. Say it frankly and openly, the sooner the better. Their only hope is England. Such a decits perfect consistency with the traditional policy of England, would be glorious for her; and it would do more than anything else to bring back that temper of peace which ought to prevail between our two countries. To the Duchess of Argyll, April 26:— The duke's speech At Edinburgh, April 1. was like himself, and has been much admired. You will, perhaps, note the account of it in a private letter printed here in Washington. But I long to have him take the ground, where at last En
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 49: letters to Europe.—test oath in the senate.—final repeal of the fugitive-slave act.—abolition of the coastwise slave-trade.—Freedmen's Bureau.—equal rights of the colored people as witnesses and passengers.—equal pay of colored troops.—first struggle for suffrage of the colored people.—thirteenth amendment of the constitution.— French spoliation claims.—taxation of national banks.— differences with Fessenden.—Civil service Reform.—Lincoln's re-election.—parting with friends.—1863-1864. (search)
the market value of the shares. Sumner was very decided against subjecting the banks to State taxation, and proposed as a substitute a rate of taxation exclusively imposed by Congress. He entered earnestly into the debate on different days, April 26, 27, and 29; May 5 and 6. Works, vol. VIII. pp. 419436. maintaining that the exemption of the national banks from local taxation and interference was essential to the working of the new system and to the support of the public credit at a critiwas his custom, to urge the living to maintain the cause of freedom. March 29, 1864. Works, vol. VIII. pp. 228-235. Sumner wrote to Longfellow, May 21:— I have just seen in a paper the death of R. J. Mackintosh at London on the 26th of April. Is this so? It makes me unhappy. Tell me about it. Had he been ill? And what becomes of his family? I hear also that Hawthorne has gone. One by one, almost in twos, they seem to go. We shall be alone soon. I forget! I shall be alone;
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 54: President Grant's cabinet.—A. T. Stewart's disability.—Mr. Fish, Secretary of State.—Motley, minister to England.—the Alabama claims.—the Johnson-Clarendon convention.— the senator's speech: its reception in this country and in England.—the British proclamation of belligerency.— national claims.—instructions to Motley.—consultations with Fish.—political address in the autumn.— lecture on caste.—1869. (search)
dence shows that the three were at the time in entire agreement on the English question. Mr. Fish, as well as others who were anxious for a settlement of the claims, was disturbed by the clamor in England which followed Sumner's speech, and which, it was feared, might interfere with the negotiation. The New York Times, which approved both the substance and tone of the speech, April 16, changed its position after the report of its reception in England was received, May 13, 18, 19, 22, 23, 26; June 12, 18. Correspondents started the rumor that there were differences between Fish and the senator, New York Times, June 14. and the latter wrote to Cushing, June 16:— I saw Fish last evening, and found him as always with me most friendly. We spoke of the attempt to make it appear that there were differences between us; and I ventured to remark that, whatever might be the effect of such efforts on my position, I feared more the influence on our case in England and the position o
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 55: Fessenden's death.—the public debt.—reduction of postage.— Mrs. Lincoln's pension.—end of reconstruction.—race discriminations in naturalization.—the Chinese.—the senator's record.—the Cuban Civil War.—annexation of San Domingo.—the treaties.—their use of the navy.—interview with the presedent.—opposition to the annexation; its defeat.—Mr. Fish.—removal of Motley.—lecture on Franco-Prussian War.—1869-1870. (search)
civil offices, which he opposed, May 12.1870 (Works, vol. XIII. pp. 381-383); a bureau of education, and an expedition for Arctic explorations, both of which he favored. May 9, 27, 1870 (Works, vol. XIII. pp. 377-380: Ibid., pp. 384-386),—advocating the bureau again, March 13, 1872 (Globe, p. 1637): the return of the surplus of the Chinese indemnity fund remaining after payment of all just claims, for which he made an elaborate report, June 24, 1870 (Works, vol. XIII. pp. 445-470). and April 26 (Globe, p. 2977). Sumner's facility in dealing with financial questions increased with the thought and research he applied to them, as well for current debates as for prepared efforts. He had come to them late, and he developed unexpected power in treating them. Sherman said of him in 1874, that he had of late years carefully studied these questions, and had contributed to their solution. April 27, 1874. Congressional Globe, p. 3405. He continued his active interest in the treatme