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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)
had been made by the purchaser, the arms were, when the agency was well known, delivered six weeks later. When the Remingtons withdrew as open competitors, one Richardson, described in the debate as a little country lawyer, stepped in. He was not in the arms business, was a neighbor of the Remingtons at Ilion, and known to be in ons with them; and the arms sold to him went at once into their possession, and were thereupon shipped to France. Schurz challenged denial of his charge that Richardson was Remington's agent, but no senator rose. It appeared from Remington's letter—written two months after the secretary's order to the French officer at Tours, wviolation of international law. Feb. 16, 1872, Congressional Globe, p. 1072; Works, vol. XV. p. 22. Meantime, however, the ordnance bureau manufactured for Richardson a large quantity of ammunition suitable for the guns sold, although the Acts of Congress authorized only a sale of unserviceable ammunition, not a manufacture o