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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)
h our foreign affairs. The Boston Advertiser, which had justified the capture and opposed a surrender, printed only a brief summary of the speech, while printing entire that of B. F. Thomas in the House which sustained Captain Wilkes. The New York Tribune printed Sumner's speech in full. The senator received testimonies of approval from a long list of correspondents,—among whom were John Bigelow, N. P. Tallmadge, Francis B. Cutting, Parke Godwin, R. H. Dana, Jr., Henry L. Dawes, Julius Rockwell, George T. Bigelow, Emory Washburn, John H. Clifford, James Russell Lowell, Charles E. Norton, Prof. Henry W. Torrey, John M. Read, and Wayne MacVeagh. From this large collection of tributes only two can be given. Theodore D. Woolsey wrote:— Having just read with pleasure your speech on the Trent case, as given in the Tribune of yesterday, I feel moved to express to you my satisfaction that you have given the affair such a shape, and have tacitly exposed some of Mr. Seward's
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)
ew with the presedent.—opposition to the annexation; its defeat.—Mr. Fish.—removal of Motley.—lecture on Franco-Prussian War.—1869-1870. The chair of Fessenden was vacant when the Senate convened, Dec. 6, 1869, he having died September 8. Sumner paid a tribute to his memory Dec. 14, 1869, Works, vol. XIII. pp. 189-194. which drew grateful letters from the friends and admirers of the deceased senator,—among whom were James S. Pike, the journalist, Mr. Clifford, former governor, and Mr. Rockwell, late senator. The time was not far ahead when Sumner was to be in need of the Maine senator's courage and sense of honor. Whittier wrote, March 8:— I was especially delighted with thy remarks on the death of Senator Fessenden. Viewed in connection with the circumstances, I know of nothing finer, truer, and more magnanimous. It is such things that bring thee nearer to the hearts of the people. Carl Schurz, who had taken his seat in March, 1869, was, at Sumner's instan