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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4 32 0 Browse Search
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory, containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America., together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published. (ed. George P. Rowell and company) 12 0 Browse Search
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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 46: qualities and habits as a senator.—1862. (search)
ot denying to many of their contemporaries a certain measure of these noble qualities, their fullest development must be found in our time in two kindred characters,— John Bright and Charles Sumner. See estimates in W. H. Channing's Life, by O. B. Frothingham, p. 367; Pall Mall Gazette, Dec. 26, 1866; Harper's Weekly, March 24, 1866; New York Herald, Dec 28, 1871, containing an article, in the characteristic style of that journal, from a correspondent who mingles praise and dispraise. J. W. Forney wrote of Sumner (Anecdotes of public Men, vol. II. p. 262): We are all human; the best, like the worst, are controlled more or less by personal motives. But Sumner, I insist, was the supreme exception to this rule. I never knew any man less moved by selfish instincts. True, he had a lofty self-consciousness, or self-assertion; he liked to speak of his achievements, and he had the precision and the positiveness of a close reader and thinker. But he was not a self-seeker. He never int
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 50: last months of the Civil War.—Chase and Taney, chief-justices.—the first colored attorney in the supreme court —reciprocity with Canada.—the New Jersey monopoly.— retaliation in war.—reconstruction.—debate on Louisiana.—Lincoln and Sumner.—visit to Richmond.—the president's death by assassination.—Sumner's eulogy upon him. —President Johnson; his method of reconstruction.—Sumner's protests against race distinctions.—death of friends. —French visitors and correspondents.—1864-1865. (search)
g them were letters and telegrams from George Bancroft, James Gordon Bennett, Henry J. Raymond, Simon Cameron, and W. H. Seward. Charles A. Dana, then an editor in Chicago, wrote to Sumner that it was advisable to keep with the President as far as possible in order to prevent the Democrats coming into power through any unnecessary quarrel among ourselves. His journal, the Chicago Republican, justified President Johnson's exclusion of the colored people from his plan of reconstruction. John W. Forney of the Philadelphia Press, a partisan of the President, who had come also to be an admirer of Sumner, begged him, in view of all he had accomplished, to yield something of his present judgment for the sake of harmony with the vast political army of which he had been a conscientious and courageous leader. Sumner's chief sympathizers at this time were the old Abolitionists and Free Soilers, with here and there men of radical ways of thinking, like Wayne MacVeagh and Horace Greeley. The l
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, chapter 10 (search)
d style of living and conversation, have been often described. Recollections of Charles Sumner, by A. B. Johnson, Scribner's Magazine. August, 1874, pp. 475– 490; November, 1874. pp. 101-114; June, 1875, pp. 224-229; July. 1875, pp. 297-304; J. W. Forney's Anecdotes of Public Men, vol. II. pp. 259, 260; Christian Union, April 1, 1874, Springfield Republican, March 17, 1874, by Miss A. L. Dawes (Haigha); Philadelphia Press, Sept. 5, 1871, by Mrs. A. L. Howard; New York Independent, June 1, 187 in any letter or public way; and, as far as known, he acquiesced without protest in the final decision of his party. The Cincinnati Commercial. July 19, 1891, published D. C. Forney's statement concerning a private meeting at the rooms of John W. Forney in Washington, 1). C., Nov. 6, 1867, for conference on the political situation, where were present Senators Wade, Chandler, and Sumner, John W. and D. C. Forney. D. K. Cartter, General Rawlins, 0. E. Babcock, and others. All present were in
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)
640-642; National Antislavery Standard, February 5; letter from Grace Greenwood in the New York Tribune, January 24. In the debate, Drake of Missouri and Fowler of Tennessee disapproved the attacks made on Sumner. (February 11, Globe, p. 1216.) Forney wrote to Sumner, January 22: I hope you will excuse me for adding the expression of my deep regret at the controversy into which you have been forced by the discourteous conduct of Mr. Trumbull. The correspondent of the New York Times, February uary, 1870, B. P. Poore, in a letter to the Boston Journal, puts the day as Sunday, Jan. 2, 1870, while J. C. B. Davis puts it as Dec. 31, 1869; but the precise day is immaterial. one evening when Sumner was at dinner at his own house, with J. W. Forney and B. P. Poore as guests, the President called. The servant informed him that the senator was at dinner, but his voice being recognized in the dining-room, the senator went himself to the door and returned with the President, who took a seat
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)
This appears in his letters at this time, one written to Mrs. J. T. Furness, Jan. 13, 1871. J. W. Forney's Anecdotes of Public men, vol. II. p. 263. See also letter to Gerrit Smith, Aug. 20, 1871, orks, vol. XIV. pp 132-138. He was a guest at a complimentary dinner given in Washington to John W. Forney, January 28. Works, vol. XIV. pp. 142-145; Washington Star, January 30. and a few days ly. Lieber's letter to Sumner, March 15, 1871. while the tone of its defenders was apologetic. Forney telegraphed to Sumner from Philadelphia, March 9: The indignation here over your removal extendsuth as it really is. Sumner on his way from Washington stopped at Philadelphia to call upon Mr. Forney and Thomas Fitzgerald, Proprietor and editor of the Philadelphia Item. He died in 1891 at o Wendell Phillips and James Freeman Clarke. He was glad to entertain with a dinner and a drive Forney and Daniel Dougherty He had introduced Mr. Dougherty at a lecture, February 7, at Lincoln Hal
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 57: attempts to reconcile the President and the senator.—ineligibility of the President for a second term.—the Civil-rights Bill.—sale of arms to France.—the liberal Republican party: Horace Greeley its candidate adopted by the Democrats.—Sumner's reserve.—his relations with Republican friends and his colleague.—speech against the President.—support of Greeley.—last journey to Europe.—a meeting with Motley.—a night with John Bright.—the President's re-election.—1871-1872. (search)
coining contest Achilles sitting aloof in his tent. Boston Journal, May 6: Where is Charles Sumner? March 18: Where am I to go? Albany Evening Journal, March 22. Friendly appeals of like purport came to him from many correspondents,—from J. W. Forney, Alexander H. Rice, Wendell Phillips, and Rev. William G. Eliot. In his own State a large body of Republicans, probably a majority of those who had decided to vote for the President's re-election, bated not a jot of devotion to their senator.al, which joined in the revolt, became again the leading Republican journals. On the other hand many of those who in 1872 were the sharpest critics of dissent and separatism became themselves twelve years later dissenters and separatists, J. W. Forney, who pleaded most earnestly with Sumner to keep aloof from the secession of 1872, became a seceder in 1880, and supported Hancock against Garfield. Henry Ward Beecher, who was another of Sumner's critics in 1872, left his party in 1884, and r
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)
ys. It was always his instinct to seek the relatives of his deceased friends, and this time he searched without success for the widow of Dr. Heber, who had died October 2. He paused for a day in Philadelphia to see the Furness family, and here Mr. Forney called on him. Mr. Forney, in his interesting recollections of Sumner (Anecdotes of Public Men, vol. II. pp. 253-263), gives an account of his interviews with the senator in Philadelphia at this time, in which he notes his high spirits and Mr. Forney, in his interesting recollections of Sumner (Anecdotes of Public Men, vol. II. pp. 253-263), gives an account of his interviews with the senator in Philadelphia at this time, in which he notes his high spirits and apparently excellent health. pp. 260, 261. He reached Washington on Friday of the same week. It was evident during the summer and autumn that the hearts of the people of Massachusetts were with their senator. The heats of the Presidential contest of 1872 had subsided. Reasonable men, though not voting as he had advised, recognized that after the indignity he suffered when removed from the committee on which he had so long served, he could not, without loss of manhood, do otherwise than he
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 59: cordiality of senators.—last appeal for the Civil-rights bill. —death of Agassiz.—guest of the New England Society in New York.—the nomination of Caleb Cushing as chief-justice.—an appointment for the Boston custom-house.— the rescinding of the legislative censure.—last effort in debate.—last day in the senate.—illness, death, funeral, and memorial tributes.—Dec. 1, 1873—March 11, 1874. (search)
cities on Wednesday frequent bulletins made known the senator's condition. Merchants paused in the rush of traffic to contemplate the impending event. No death, except that of Lincoln,—it was a common remark at the time,—had for a long period so touched the popular heart. For days and weeks the press teemed with narratives of his life and delineations of his character. The Washington Chronicle (Forney's journal) recorded the titles, Honored statesman, true patriot, generous friend; J. W. Forney, in his Sunday Chronicle, March 15, paid two tributes to the senator. The New York Tribune published leaders upon him March 12 and 16, and April 30. and recurring to the theme on the day of the funeral, said: He was no master in the arts of the cunning demagogue. He never for himself asked the vote of a single person or solicited an office. The New York Tribune began its leader with the sentence, The most dignified and illustrious name which the Senate has in recent years borne upon it