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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)
Forney also, being invited by Babcock to make a statement, wrote that he understood the senator to say that he would cheerfully support the treaties; but he was unable to recall the exact words. Letter to Babcock, June 6, 1870, Congressional Globe, Dec. 21, 1870, p. 242. The words, however, as recalled by him later, do not contain a promise to support them, but only an assurance that the senator would give his best thought to them. Philadelphia Press, Oct. 3, 1877; New York Herald, Oct. 5, 1877. Forney in this second statement gives Sumner's answer to the President as follows: Well, Mr. President, I am a Republican and an Administration man, and I will do all I can to make your Administration a success. I will give the subject my best thought, and will do all I can rightly and consistently to aid you. This report of Forney does not differ substantially from Sumner's, though naturally the recollection of one who spoke the words is more precise than that of one who only heard t