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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)
would not hereafter have a hearing in the city. Boston Courier, December 4: Nor do we believe that our people will listen hereafter to the fierce tirades of Phillips and his crew, to the empty platitudes of Sumner, or the insolent bravado of Wilson. Bankers and brokers muttered warnings to the new Administration that it woulde. I am for peace, not by conceding our principles, but by simply telling the slave States go, —border ones and all. I believe in the irrepressible conflict. Wendell Phillips, in a passionate harangue, affirmed the right of the slave States, upon the principles of 1776, to decide the question of a separate government for themselves. April 9, 1861, at New Bedford; Schouler's History of Massachusetts in the Civil War. vol. I. pp. 44-47. Phillips said, I maintain on the principles of ‘76 that Abraham Lincoln has no right to a soldier in Fort Sumter. To apply to him his favorite expression, he remembered to forget the inclusion of this address in his vol
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 46: qualities and habits as a senator.—1862. (search)
B. R. Wood. No one outside of the state department had at command equal sources of information of this kind. He was the one senator to whom advanced antislavery men looked for the expression and promotion of their views; and every mail at this time, and indeed during his entire service in Congress, brought him a large number of letters from this class, in which they stated, often at great length, their hopes and fears, and their interest in the various measures concerning slavery. Wendell Phillips delivered a lecture in Washington in March, 1862, probably his first visit to the capital. He had an interview with Mr. Lincoln, and was introduced by Sumner on the floor of the Senate, where he was greeted by Mr. Hamlin, the Vice-Presidentdent, who left the chair to take his hand. Sumner's rooms while he was in the Senate were more sought than those of any member of either house. Among the visitors were writers for public journals, friends from Massachusetts, politicians from all
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 47: third election to the Senate. (search)
ild sought Sumner's influence for an internal revenue appointment, and failing to receive it turned against him, first speaking against him in the Republican convention, and then, changing his party, he took the chair at the People's Party convention. The senator in speeches read his letter as a direct contradiction to his charge of neglect of the business interests of his constituents. Sumner found eloquent and able support in different directions in the newspapers of his State; in Wendell Phillips, who called him the Stonewall Jackson of the Senate, . . . patient of labor, boundless in resources, terribly in earnest; in John G. Whittier, who dwelt upon the many sides of his character and his various attainments, his stainless life, with no use of his high position for his own personal emolument; in Horace Greeley, who in leaders in the Tribune set forth the importance to the whole country of his re-election, laying stress on his character for integrity and sincerity, respected al
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)
red soldiers. Some of the radical antislavery men openly condemned Sumner's support of Stevenson's confirmation. Wendell Phillips, hitherto among Abolitionists exceptionally kindly towards him, denounced him in speeches, At New York, May 11. 1off personal relations with him, even, as is stated, passing him on the street without recognition. Sumner felt hurt at Phillips's harshness, saving to a friend: Wendell Phillips knows me; he knows me, and he ought not to speak of me as he does. PhWendell Phillips knows me; he knows me, and he ought not to speak of me as he does. Phillips's first overture was in a letter to Sumner in March, 1865, in which he warmly commended the latter's resistance to the admission of Louisiana with a constitution which disfranchised colored people. Henceforward nothing marred their friendshipPhillips's first overture was in a letter to Sumner in March, 1865, in which he warmly commended the latter's resistance to the admission of Louisiana with a constitution which disfranchised colored people. Henceforward nothing marred their friendship. Sumner's action on another military appointment the year before also deserves mention,—that of Brigadier-General Isaac I. Stevens, a leader of the Breckinridge Democrats in 1860, now serving at Beaufort, S. C., whose confirmation had been suspen
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)
ted from the triumphs of the army by this contest in the Senate; nor had the masses of the people yet taken a practical interest in reconstruction. Sumner's chief congratulations came therefore from the distinctively antislavery men—such as Wendell Phillips, Parker Pillsbury, F. W. Bird, F. B. Sanborn, Rev. George B. Cheever, and Frederick Douglass. A letter from the writer, March 4, who little thought then of his future connection with the memory of the statesman, said:— God bless you aist (Garrison) failed to support the negro's cause at this initial stage of the struggle for his political enfranchisement, and heartily sustained the proceedings which excluded him. W. L. Garrison's Life, vol. IV. pp. 122, 123, 153,154. Wendell Phillips, however, stood firmly against his old leader, and carried with him the mass of the Abolitionists. Sumner wrote to Mr. Bright, March 13:— I have your good and most suggestive letter. I concur in it substantially. A practical diffi<
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)
termination, the devotion and inflexible purpose of its author, through fiery trials and at the risk of martyrdom. Wendell Phillips wrote of the speech with equal enthusiasm and gratitude. Whittier thought the argument irresistible, iron-linked thinally prevailed. This form, as offered by Sumner, encountered criticism in letters to him from Parker Pillsbury, Wendell Phillips, and Gerrit Smith. Antislavery Standard, March 31 and April 21. The rejected proposition concerned only representasing the conditions received only seven votes—those of Edmunds, Foster, Grimes, Howe, Morgan, Poland, and Sumner. Wendell Phillips wrote to Mrs. Child as to Sumner's failure to obtain support from his colleague in this instance: How superbly Sumne in notes. Warm congratulations came to him from a wide circle,—from companions of his youth, Howe, Longfellow, Greene, Phillips, Lieber, Agassiz, Palfrey, Whittier, the Waterstons, the Lodges, the Wadsworths, Mrs. R. B. Forbes, and Mrs. Charles Fra
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, chapter 10 (search)
rmanent distinction between the unconstitutional pretensions of secession and the constitutional autonomy of the States. Sumner had full faith that his bill would be sustained by the Supreme Court; but its subsequent decision against national legislation for the protection of civil rights shows that he was mistaken. Few of the radical Antislavery men agreed with Sumner in his preference for an Act of Congress as an effective remedy against discriminations of race as to suffrage. Wendell Phillips expressed his doubts upon this point, and in a letter urged Sumner, on personal as well as public grounds, to support the amendment. He wrote: I know you will pardon this private hint from one who loves your fame, and is jealous for it. Give us all your weight for the amendment; and if it fails, rally the ranks on the next best line—your bill. Dispute the ground, as you have always done, inch by inch. Before you've gone over all Judea, the Lord will come. The fifteenth amen
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)
nts, even from many who had dissented from his style of treating the San Domingo proceedings of the Administration. Wendell Phillips's extract from Burke expressed the feeling of many who differed from him on this point,—At this exigent moment the l your health, and am rejoiced to learn you are better. Serus in coelum redeas. Your friend, J. A. Garfield. Wendell Phillips, who was Sumner's guest, wrote to Lydia Maria Child, New England Magazine, February, 1892, p. 732. March 4, 1871:itain from her possessions on this continent. J. C. B. Davis, in the New York Herald, Jan. 4, 1878. See reply of Wendell Phillips to Davis's letter (New York Herald, Jan. 9, 1878; Boston Herald, Jan. 13, 1878). This final pretext or afterthought mn he was at Mrs. Sargent's Radical Club, where M. Coquerel, the French clergyman, was received, and where were also Wendell Phillips and James Freeman Clarke. He was glad to entertain with a dinner and a drive Forney and Daniel Dougherty He had
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)
re not young, and your country wants you,—living, I mean, for it will always have you or keep you in some sense. Wendell Phillips wrote, March 3:— Sorry to hear you are not so well, but glad they have caged you and forced you to rest. Now rch 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 deciers to public journals his sincerity and right to be heard. Boston Transcript, June 5, 6; Boston Journal, July 2. Wendell Phillips wrote: I have been saying that your speech was all true, only it was not all the truth. You omit Grant's claims; some he can fairly make. Phillips distrusted as well as personally disliked Greeley; and he added this appeal: Come home and change the air before you follow Greeley's lead. You know no one is more tender of your good fame than I,—almost tempted som
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)
Springfield Republican, March 7, 1873. Wendell Phillips, who was unable to attend the hearing, wrl about my case as he is. He wrote to Wendell Phillips, February 9— Is it true that you ar depression of spirits; and of these were Wendell Phillips and E. L. Pierce, who were his guests,—th were Longfellow, Whittier, O. W. Holmes, Wendell Phillips, Gerrit Smith, Henry Ward Beecher, Lydia d sometimes with a long list of signers. Wendell Phillips wrote at the beginning of the session frocordial regard, Affectionately yours, Wendell Phillips. And again, the day after he had parly and affectionately I am your brother, Wendell Phillips. Henry Ward Beecher wrote from Brooklyn Longfellow's Life, vol. III. p. 204. Wendell Phillips was very earnest to arrest his purpose, at of a sympathetic circle, which included Wendell Phillips, James Freeman Clarke, and T. W. Higginson Mr. Bradlaugh, M. P., was the lecturer (Wendell Phillips in the chair on one occasion), and declin[1 more...]<
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