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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 44: Secession.—schemes of compromise.—Civil War.—Chairman of foreign relations Committee.—Dr. Lieber.—November, 1860– April, 1861. (search)
1861. Works, vol. v. p. 473. The master spirits in Buchanan's Cabinet when Congress met were secessionists,—Cobb, SecSouthern officers was found to be well justified. President Buchanan, in his message to Congress, laid the original blamecated, Oct. 29, 1860, his views in a formal paper to President Buchanan, and to Floyd, Secretary of War. While advising theey are the subject of criticism in G. T. Curtis's Life of Buchanan, vol. II. pp. 391, 395. His faith did not spring from naur principles, which leaders now propose to abandon, as Mr. Buchanan proposed to abandon Fort Sumter. The public pride arrend Strength keep and guide you! Sumner called on President Buchanan with reference to the offer of aid to the governmentnferred often with General Scott and the loyal members of Buchanan's Cabinet-Stanton, Holt, and Dix—in reference to the safef the nation to the States, in which he came very near to Buchanan's, was no less objectionable. He wrote Mr. Adams, our mi
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)
charges affecting his official integrity. Mr. Cameron was confirmed, with considerable opposition, however, from Republican senators. Sumner, who had been in close relations with Stanton during the winter of 1860-1861, when he was a member of Buchanan's Cabinet, cordially welcomed him to his new post. This was the first session in which Sumner was able to make his opposition to slavery effective in legislation and national policy, and what follows will show how he used his opportunity. Whn of Philip F. Thomas, senator-elect from Maryland, specifically on the ground that he had permitted a minor son to leave home to enlist in the Confederate army, and had provided him with money as he left; but Thomas's resistance, as a member of Buchanan's Cabinet, to the relief of Fort Sumter, and his resignation when it was decided to send provisions to the garrison, was the underlying motive with senators for excluding him. He was refused a seat, although his right was maintained by the votes
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, chapter 10 (search)
w, by the opening of the Pacific Railway and kindred enterprises, to develop commercial needs sufficient to absorb the full amount of the existing currency. During the last year of the Civil War it became evident that General Grant would, if he chose, be a candidate for the Presidency in 1838, with the chances altogether in favor of his election; but it was quite uncertain whether he was to be the Republican or the Democratic candidate. His last vote at a national election had been for Buchanan. His report read in Congress in December, 1865, on the state of the South, his accompanying of President Johnson on the latter's political tour in 1866, and his acceptance of the portfolio of the war department upon Mr. Stanton's removal were interpreted as showing leanings towards the party with which he had acted before the war. But his later misunderstandings with President Johnson, growing out of the manner of his leaving the war department in January, 1868, led to a bitter antagonism
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 56: San Domingo again.—the senator's first speech.—return of the angina pectoris.—Fish's insult in the Motley Papers.— the senator's removal from the foreign relations committee.—pretexts for the remioval.—second speech against the San Domingo scheme.—the treaty of Washington.—Sumner and Wilson against Butler for governor.—1870-1871. (search)
subjugate Kansas to slavery. He likened the President's attempt to interfere with the committee on foreign relations to Buchanan's insistence on Douglas's removal in 1868 from the committee on territories in order to carry the Lecompton constitutionalled on Colfax, the Vice-President, to counsel the President to shun all approach to the example of Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, and Andrew Johnson. At the end he insisted on the title of the colored race to the island,—theirs by right of possee evening, when Morton replied to Sumner. He repelled the charge of usurpation and the comparison of the President with Buchanan and Pierce, but passed lightly over the use of our ships in the Haytian and Dominican waters. Though predicting the annor a change at the instance of the Executive was the removal of Douglas from the head of the committee on territories at Buchanan's dictation on account of that senator's opposition to the Lecompton constitution. It was recalled in the debate that
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 58: the battle-flag resolution.—the censure by the Massachusetts Legislature.—the return of the angina pectoris. —absence from the senate.—proofs of popular favor.— last meetings with friends and constituents.—the Virginius case.—European friends recalled.—1872-1873. (search)
t power a new republic with some hope of perpetuity, was altogether suited to the genius of the two heads of the war bureaus, Robeson and Belknap. The former spent five millions of dollars in his unseemly preparations of a naval armament against a friendly power, and the latter's subsequent career is well remembered. Behind all was the greed for Cuba and the watching of an opportunity to seize that possession of Spain. The whole transaction, reviving the memory of the Ostend manifesto of Buchanan, Mason, and Slidell, ended in a fiasco. The Virginius was delivered up by the Spanish government; and while being towed as a trophy by one of our war ships to New York, she went to the bottom off Cape Fear. I left Boston for Europe, May 20, and was absent till November 13. For the few days after my arrival home Sumner remained in the city. I sought his rooms at the Coolidge House as often as each alternate morning, reaching his door before he had completed his dressing, and remaining