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The Daily Dispatch: September 13, 1861., [Electronic resource] 6 2 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4 3 1 Browse Search
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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 52: Tenure-of-office act.—equal suffrage in the District of Columbia, in new states, in territories, and in reconstructed states.—schools and homesteads for the Freedmen.—purchase of Alaska and of St. Thomas.—death of Sir Frederick Bruce.—Sumner on Fessenden and Edmunds.—the prophetic voices.—lecture tour in the West.—are we a nation?—1866-1867. (search)
mptions. The cession of Russian America to the United States, a territory of 570,000 square miles, took place at this time,—an acquisition with which the names of Seward and Sumner will always be associated. Late on Friday evening, March 29, 1867, Sumner received a note from Seward asking for an immediate call at his house on a matter of public business. He went at once, but too late to meet the secretary, who had left for the state department. His son the assistant secretary, and M. de Stoeckl the Russian minister, who soon came in, explained the proposed cession which was the occasion of the summons, and indicated the boundary as traced by the Archduke Constantine in a personal interview with that minister who had just arrived from St. Petersburg. All then went to the department, where the treaty was being copied. Leutze painted the scene when the treaty was explained. A photograph of the picture is given in Seward's Life, vol. III. p. 349. Sumner listened, but gave no
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, chapter 10 (search)
e payment of salaries to the judges. Feb. 1, 2, and 3 (Congressional Globe, pp. 765-767, 783-786, 818). The New York World, with reference to this debate, referred, February 5, to his dictatorship in the Senate. He wrote to Dr. Howe, Jan. 1869:— It is difficult to understand the precise position of Crete. Can the late telegraphic news be true? I suspect it as an invention of the Turk. I regret that there is no good sympathetic Russian minister here with whom I could confer. Stoeckl has gone home; and even he was little better than an old Democrat, with a Massachusetts wife steeped in Webster whiggery; so, we fight our great battle generally with little support or sympathy. To Mr. Bright, January 17:— Of course I read carefully all that you say, whether to the public, or better still, to myself. Your last letter was full of interest. All the treaties The Johnson-Clarendon treaties. have been sent to the Senate in copy. They would have been ratified at a