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George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory, containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America., together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published. (ed. George P. Rowell and company) 146 146 Browse Search
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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 31 31 Browse Search
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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)
Winthrop,—in denouncing the Compromise measures of 1850, and especially the Fugitive Slave Act, the immediate and complete repeal of which he had advocated. He stoutly insisted in 1854 that the Nebraska bill should be opposed, not so much as a breach of compact, but rather as the rejection of the Free Soil principle that slavery should be excluded from the Territories by national prohibition. Letter to Sumner, March 17, 1854. He took part in the Free Soil national conventions of 1848 and 1852, and the Republican convention of 1856; and when elected to Congress in 1858, he was understood to hold the most advanced constitutional positions against slavery. He held such positions during the first session of his term; and when he was leaving Boston for Washington in December, 1860, he signified to his friends that he should still maintain them against the expected pressure for compromise. The key to his new departure is most likely to be found in his personal and political intimacy,
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 47: third election to the Senate. (search)
awyer, confessed, after reading the first two volumes of this Memoir, in a letter to the author, that he had misjudged Sumner for many years, and now saw his character in a better light. As soon as the opposition began to show itself there was a rally on the other side. Sumner could always rely upon a reserved force among the people, a force consisting of those with whom the moral sentiments were uppermost,—Liberty Party men of 1844, Conscience Whigs of 1845 to 1847, Free Soilers of 1848 and 1852,—classes abounding in men of intellectual vigor. They comprised the clergy in large numbers, teachers of advanced schools, and most of the editors of the country press. If idealists, they were not idealists only, and they were a match—for practised party men in using effectively the weapons of political warfare. As a body they were governed by no selfish considerations, and they went into a contest with a determined spirit, which meant not only the support of their own candidate, but war u<
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)
arrying what he had proposed in 1862,—the abolition of the coastwise slave-trade, now left, as he said, the last support of slavery on the statutebook. He had reported a bill for the purpose, but as it could not be reached in due course, he availed himself, as in other instances, of the appropriation bill, moving his bill as an amendment to it, and fortifying himself against the objection of irrelevancy with precedents,—among them his own amendment for the repeal of the Fugitive Slave Act in 1852, which Mr. Hunter, then in charge of the bill, did not object to as untimely. June 24 and 25. Works, vol. IX. pp. 30-38. Hendricks, as a thrust at Republican senators, expressed surprise that any one should oppose the senator's proposition on the ground of materiality, or want of connection with the pending bill, as he had succeeded in similar cases before, and would do so eventually in this; and so it proved. His amendment, lost at one stage, prevailed when he renewed the effort at ano
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)
himself to support the treaties in a personal interview with the President called out a positive denial from Sumner, and a statement of what occurred at the time. Conkling brought into the debate a characteristic speech, and disclosed the scheme, already determined upon, of removing Sumner from the committee on foreign relations. Thurman from the opposite side of the chamber reminded Republican senators that the senator they were now dismissing from their party stood alone in that body in 1852 without a single follower, but sixty had come, including the senator from Michigan, to follow implicitly in his footsteps. Edmunds went at least to the extreme limits of honorable debate. He accused Sumner of private resentment and animosity to the President, and of forgetting, in the indulgence of private griefs, his duty as a senator, going so far as to impute to him an equivocal answer to the President's request for his support of the treaties. He also brought up the Chicago interview,