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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, chapter 10 (search)
Mahomet, with his corrections; Pope's Essay on Man, with his revision in ink for a new edition; a gift copy of Thomson's Spring, with verses in the author's handwriting on the titlepage; Dr. Parr's Hobbes; The gift ,f Sir William Molesworth. and books which had belonged to Anne Boleyn, Queen Elizabeth, a doge of Venice, Ben Jonson, Wordsworth, Turgot, and Napoleon. With these were autographs of reformers, popes, kings, statesmen, poets; and choicest of all to Sumner was the Album kept at Geneva, 1608-1640, in which Milton had recorded his name, an extract from Comus, and a line of Horace. Ante, vol. II. pp. 124, note; p. 351, note. Quaritch and other dealers in curiosities in London and Paris, as well as Sypher in New York, found in him a customer who rarely questioned their prices. He bought a large number of oil paintings, chiefly in Washington and Boston,—some well done and others quite indifferent, paying extravagant prices, and being easily imposed upon as to value and art
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 54: President Grant's cabinet.—A. T. Stewart's disability.—Mr. Fish, Secretary of State.—Motley, minister to England.—the Alabama claims.—the Johnson-Clarendon convention.— the senator's speech: its reception in this country and in England.—the British proclamation of belligerency.— national claims.—instructions to Motley.—consultations with Fish.—political address in the autumn.— lecture on caste.—1869. (search)
or pecuniary assessment before the tribunal at Geneva, wrote to Sumner, May 22, 1872: I ought to saythe beginning of the controversy to its end at Geneva in 1872. Neither as to the British proclamatis to preserve amity and peace. Our counsel at Geneva maintained that a portion of these claims had nsurgent confederates. The American Case at Geneva, drawn by J. C. B. Davis, assigned to the proctor, Sir Alexander Cockburn, in his Opinion at Geneva, deeming the Case intentionally offensive in tlty of falsehood and hypocrisy. Our counsel at Geneva,—Cushing, Evarts, and Waite,—in their argumentil the spontaneous decision of the tribunal at Geneva, June 19, 1872, that they did not constitute awhich came near breaking up the arbitration at Geneva and a peaceful settlement of the controversy. Our counsel at Geneva in their printed argument maintained with fulness and earnestness and reite Joint High Commission, the eminent counsel at Geneva,—Cushing, Evarts, and Waite,—and the author of[2 more.
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)
d been decided as the wisest course to place him at the head of the ticket, he would doubtless have accepted the place,— as it would have been his duty to do in view of his relations to the movement. The natural candidate of the new party, and one with whom it would have made its best canvass and perhaps have succeeded, was Charles Francis Adams, minister to England for nearly eight years,—a period including the Civil War,—and at this time (1872) a member of the Tribunal of Arbitration at Geneva. He would have held the Democratic vote, and divided conservative Republicans. At one time his nomination seemed altogether likely; He led Greeley on all the ballots, but changes on the last one before it was announced gave the latter the nomination. but a peculiar letter from him, made public at the time, in which he spoke of the Liberal Republicans as that crowd, repelled delegates from his support. Mr. Bird of the Massachusetts delegation was opposed to his nomination, and was thou<
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)
, but found an impediment in Governor Andrew, who thought his record stood in the way of an appointment. Later, his ability as a publicist was brought to the aid of the government at Washington in important matters, and before the arbitrators at Geneva. He acted with the Republican party by his votes in the national elections of 1864, 1868, and 1872, and also approved the constitutional amendments and the measures of reconstruction. Cushing supplied Sumner a brief, which stated his politicThere was a sense of relief when the President made his fourth attempt to appoint a chief-justice in the nomination of M. R. Waite of Toledo, Ohio, who, though without a national reputation as a jurist, except in his part as one of the counsel at Geneva, was credited by those who knew him best as well equipped by study and practice, distinguished for the integrity of his mind and character, and possessing in a marked degree the judicial temper. The appointment was not thought at the time to pro