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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)
, 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 close relations 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, who was charged with the duty of buying such materials—that he was still negotiating with our government for the purchase of arms and the manufacture of cartridges. Further, it appeared that Remington still continued to be in business relations with the officers of the ordnance bureau, at whose agency in New York the negotiations were carried on. Finally, on pressure from Schurz, the secretary (Jan. 24, 1871) stopped the sale of arms altogether. The Secretary of State, to whom Schurz ap