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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)
red with by federal or local legislation—to carry their slaves into the Territories and hold them there was affirmed, and the Southern States were treated as an injured party which had been denied its rights under the Constitution. Memoirs of John A. Dix, vol. I. pp. 346-360. Dix and Tilden were Free Soilers in 1848. Dix approved the Crittenden Compromise. Coleman's Life of J. J. Crittenden, vol. II. p. 237. Propositions of compromise were offered in Congress as soon as it met in December, and committees on the subject were appointed,—one of thirteen in the Senate and another of thirty-three in the House, Thomas Corwin of Ohio being chairman of the latter. The most noted of the schemes, which was presented December 18, came from Crittenden of Kentucky,—a most respectable and patriotic statesman, who, however, under the limitations of his training and associations could not comprehend the moral and political antagonism to the extension and perpetuity of slavery which animate<
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 45: an antislavery policy.—the Trent case.—Theories of reconstruction.—confiscation.—the session of 1861-1862. (search)
only a month or six weeks. Works, vol. VI. p. 152. They were not so near together as that, and hard work was yet to be done; but the ground had been broken, and from that time the progress was steady. The chief difference at the time was that Sumner and men of his type did not see the advantages which then impressed the President of dealing tenderly with the lukewarm and even doubtful loyalty of the slaveholding opponents of the Administration in the border slave States. Later, in December, the President communicated to Sumner his plan for inducing the border slave States to accept a project of voluntary emancipation,—one of gradual abolition, assisted by a national contribution. Sumner did not himself believe in any gradual scheme, or in the practicability of compensation on a large scale, or in the President's project for colonization; but he looked upon this forward movement as an earnest of better things to come. On the morning of the day, March 6, when the President wa
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 49: letters to Europe.—test oath in the senate.—final repeal of the fugitive-slave act.—abolition of the coastwise slave-trade.—Freedmen's Bureau.—equal rights of the colored people as witnesses and passengers.—equal pay of colored troops.—first struggle for suffrage of the colored people.—thirteenth amendment of the constitution.— French spoliation claims.—taxation of national banks.— differences with Fessenden.—Civil service Reform.—Lincoln's re-election.—parting with friends.—1863-1864. (search)
h all persons in the civil and military service were required to take an oath which affirmed past loyalty, as well as pledged future allegiance to the government. At the special session in March, 1863, and at the regular session, which began in December of the same year, Sumner contended that this statute applied to senators. March 5, 1863; Jan. 25, 1864. Works, vol. VIII. pp. 53-72. He and other Republican senators took the oath voluntarily; but as the Democratic senators maintained that can descent in the United States, and he commended it in brief remarks. Feb. 9, 1864. Works, vol. VIII. pp. 80-83. A constitutional prohibition, however, could be the only sure method which would secure the end. On his way to Washington in December, when the session was about to begin, Sumner sketched to Henry C. Wright, a fellow-passenger between Fall River and New York, the form of a petition for an amendment of the Constitution declaring that slavery shall be forever prohibited within t
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)
it was evident that Sumner's mother would not long survive. The mother's character is given, ante, vol. i. pp. 30, 31. She had reached fourscore years, and her physical powers were waning. Her physician, from the beginning of the session in December, sent Charles (now the only surviving son), by his directions, weekly statements of her condition, while other reports came from Dr. Howe and other friends, and also from Miss Ford, a constant attendant and for many years living at intervals wit. I am an idealist, and now I hope to live my idea. Mrs. Bancroft may perhaps recall conversations many years ago in which I expressed my longings and aspirations. She will surely remember something that was said when I was at your house last December while on my way to Washington. Let me confess that I am not without solicitude. I tremble sometimes at the responsibility I assume. I am to make another happy; for unless I do this there can be no happiness for me, and my idea will be quenc
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)
venience and denied their binding force. Sumner was unsuccessful in an effort to strike the word white from the naturalization laws. July 19, 1867; Works, vol. XI. pp. 418, 419. He said: I do not wish that it [the bill] should go over to December. I do not wish that any wrong should go over to December. The fear of Chinese emigrants stood in the way of this measure. See debate in the Senate, Feb. 9. 1869, Congressional Globe, pp. 1031-1035. He sought to establish equal suffrage in allDecember. The fear of Chinese emigrants stood in the way of this measure. See debate in the Senate, Feb. 9. 1869, Congressional Globe, pp. 1031-1035. He sought to establish equal suffrage in all the States by statute, but the restrictive rule set out its consideration July 12, 1867; Works, vol. XI. pp. 409-413. He advised a popular agitation for this measure. Letter to the New York Independent, May 2, 1867. Works, vol. XI. pp. 356-360. Immediately after, Conkling, a partisan of the rule, endeavored to introduce a resolution to enable a young man to enter the Naval Academy, when Sumner, to the amusement of the Senate, reminded that senator that while he had insisted on the rule a
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 55: Fessenden's death.—the public debt.—reduction of postage.— Mrs. Lincoln's pension.—end of reconstruction.—race discriminations in naturalization.—the Chinese.—the senator's record.—the Cuban Civil War.—annexation of San Domingo.—the treaties.—their use of the navy.—interview with the presedent.—opposition to the annexation; its defeat.—Mr. Fish.—removal of Motley.—lecture on Franco-Prussian War.—1869-1870. (search)
but repressing them in his general correspondence. What he wrote related to the injustice to Motley, and not to himself. Strong as these feelings were, the controversy would have ended here if the President had not revived it at the session in December. Sumner wrote a note June 26, marked private, to J. L. Stackpole of Boston, nephew of Motley, who had written to him of the report in that city, on the 24th, of the minister's intended removal— I fear that there is ground for the rumor ley of Connecticut. In what he said there was no hint of differences with the President. October 15. Works, vol. XIV. pp. 1-5. Immediately after the meeting he started on a lecturing tour, which filled the interval until the session in December. After the labors and vexations of the last session, almost any one else would have insisted on repose; but he was anxious to meet expenses in Washington without incurring debt or diminishing his capital. He appeared thirty-eight times before
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)
ainst the senator; and then as always he lent a too ready ear to suggestions unfriendly to those who had thwarted his will. Sumner on arriving in Washington, in December, was assured from various quarters that the President was angry with him, and had even said that but for the dignity of his office as President he would call thedined at his house, besides about the same time making a call there. They were meeting in this way in agreeable personal intercourse through the greater part of December, and so far as Sumner knew might have continued thus to meet up to January 9, when the President sent to the Senate the papers concerning Motley's recall. Thesession, being the oldest senator in continuous service, he moved the appointment of Senator Anthony as President pro tem. of the Senate. Since the debate in December on San Domingo, important documents relating to the negotiations and the use of war ships had, on calls moved by Sumner, been sent to the Senate. With the facts
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)
that such an effort would be fatal; but as the intimation of that result did not deter him, he was held in check by the warning of prolonged disability of brain,—a calamity which he had so much dreaded in 1856 as the effect of the assault. From December to May he rarely left his house, taking only an occasional short walk or drive, and leading, as he said, a tranquil existence, seeing friends, and amusing himself with books. He kept his thoughts as far as might be from public business, and suse pleasure the necessity of preparing at once to meet an engagement with a bureau for delivering a lecture in different parts of the country, appearing four or five nights a week from the middle of October to the beginning of the next session in December. He wrote: I need rest and play and friendship; instead, I commence wearing toil. He had undertaken the task for the purpose of paying the balance of the debt incurred in his recent journey to Europe. His subject was to be The Unity of the R
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)
rds as few as those you select; and to this conclusion I came sometime ago. Certainly, I shall say nothing controversial. I am now opposing the monstrosity of a world's fair linked with the commemoration of the national natal day. I have spoken once, and shall speak again briefly, perhaps in a few minutes. Sumner's health during the early weeks of the session did not fall below what he had enjoyed at home during the summer and autumn. The severe cold which he contracted in New York in December lasted through January, and then disappeared. Shortly after his return from that city the pains on the heart recurred; but after two nights they left him, and he did not have recourse to the former remedies. Otherwise he had only slight reminders of the angina, and this after ascending the staircase to the Senate chamber. At the beginning of March He was waked by it one night, and suffered for an hour or more, until relieved by medicine; but for the week following he was very cheerful an
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, chapter 18 (search)
n fixed on a vote of the islanders, which in view of what they were could be of no significance, and which involved vexatious questions and postponements, so that the treaty was not signed till Oct. 24, 1867, and not submitted to the Senate till December, and the vote of the islanders was not communicated till Jan. 17, 1868. Although in December, 1867, when the treaty was referred, Mr. Sumner promptly requested the papers from the state department, they were not forthcoming for seven weeks; anther charge of smothering the treaty (secretly and silently done, she says), there is no truth. Happily, the amplest record evidence is at hand to disprove them. As many as twenty-five letters or notes from General Raasloff to Mr. Sumner,—from December, 1868, to May, 1869, the period during most of which he was at Washington urging the ratification,—are preserved, and are in my hands. The purchase of St. Thomas did not attract Mr. Sumner, but he kept an open mind concerning it, and as far