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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 45: an antislavery policy.—the Trent case.—Theories of reconstruction.—confiscation.—the session of 1861-1862. (search)
Hampshire, Foot and Collamer of Vermont, Preston King of New York, Wilmot of Pennsylvania, Trumbull of Illinois, Wade and Sherman of Ohio, and Chandler of Michigan. The presence most missed was that of Douglas, who died June 3. The session of July 9 was set apart for eulogies on Douglas, in which Trumbull and Collamer took part. Sumner, though inclined to pay tributes to deceased associates, remained silent. The committee on foreign relations consisted of Sumner (chairman), Collamer, Doolit it, or to save it from the natural results of war. Their restiveness was shown in Congress in Lovejoy's resolution that it is no part of the duty of the soldiers of the United States to capture and return fugitive slaves, which passed the House, July 9, by a vote of ninety-three yeas to fifty-five nays; Lovejoy, answering Sumner's note of congratulation, wrote, July 11: Our conservative people were timid and vexed, but they had to vote right at last. but this was almost their only demonstrat
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)
l the members of Congress, excepting those serving on the committee on the conduct of the war, had left for their homes. His time was well spent in watching closely public affairs, exerting influence against the issuing of letters of marque and reprisal, advising with the President concerning foreign despatches as they arrived; and his salutary influence on our foreign relations while he lingered at the capital, particularly in keeping the peace with England and France, New York Tribune, July 9. was recognized in public journals and letters from constituents. At the same time he was gathering materials for an address on foreign affairs to be delivered in the autumn, and maintaining our cause in full letters to Cobden, Bright, and the Duchess of Argyll. Those were intended to set right the duke, then in the Cabinet. He kept up close relations with the foreign ministers resident at Washington,— Lord Lyons, Mercier, Schleiden, and Baron Gerolt the dean of the corps, the last name
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 51: reconstruction under Johnson's policy.—the fourteenth amendment to the constitution.—defeat of equal suffrage for the District of Columbia, and for Colorado, Nebraska, and Tennessee.—fundamental conditions.— proposed trial of Jefferson Davis.—the neutrality acts. —Stockton's claim as a senator.—tributes to public men. —consolidation of the statutes.—excessive labor.— address on Johnson's Policy.—his mother's death.—his marriage.—1865-1866. (search)
pril 2 (Globe, p. 1715); burden of proof in seizures under revenue laws, Maya 14 and 15 (Globe, pp. 2564, 2565, 2590); the conditions making a vacancy which the President can fill during a recess of Congress, April 23. 30, May 8 (Globe, pp. 2117, 2276, 2449); the limit of time for receiving a minority report, in this case one concerning reconstruction, July 7 (Globe, p. 3648); salaries of clerks of committees, July 25 (Globe, pp. 4132, 4133); the extension of Hyatt's patent for vault lights, July 9 (Globe, pp. 3665, 3666); a general bankrupt law, July 23 (Globe, p. 4025). Sumner's addiction to the discussion of questions of general policy did not keep him from the closest attention to the humblest details of official business which properly belonged to him. It was a most laborious session, lasting far into the heats of summer, and ending only on July 28. Sumner's speeches, with notes, fill an entire volume of his Works, making five hundred and fifty pages, covering a great variety
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)
06. The House had rejected Banks's resoluions acknowledging the Cuban insurgents as belligerents, and passed a single resolution of remonstrance against the barbarous manner in which the war was being conducted. Sumner spoke briefly on the subject at other times in the session (Dec. 15. 1869, Works, vol. XIII. pp. 195-203; Feb. 3, 1870, Globe, pp. 1003, 1007, 1008). His resolutions were approved by the press (New York Evening Post, June 24; New York Herald, June 24 and 25; Harper's Weekly, July 9). They were in accord with the President's message. June 13 (Globe, p. 4400). Interviews with the senator on the Cuban question are reported in the New York Herald, May 7, 1869; New York Times, Jan. 10, 1870; New York World, Dec. 11, 1869. The last-named journal contains (Feb. 10, 1870) the senator's views given at length. Ante, pp. 401-403.—which, however, did not come to a vote. Dr. Howe, who had a passion for revolutions and civil disturbances of all kinds, and had no respect for the