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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, 1860April, 1861. (search)
ent on the part of the North. Von Holst, vol. VII. p. 431. The other proposition admitted New Mexico, altogether unripe for membership in the Union, New Mexico is not thought thirty and more years later to be fit for admission. Arizona, then included in her limits, is also still a Territory. although she had already in 1859 legalized slavery and adopted a barbarous slave code. Von Holst, vol. VII. pp. 199, 227. The Boston Courier, holding an extreme Southern position, approved, February 2, Mr. Adams's propositions, saying: It is certain that these propositions include the principle of everything for which the South has contended. Within two weeks Mr. Adams, however, voted in committee against his two propositions when they came up again for final action, justifying his change of position on the ground that they had not been accepted as satisfactory by the recusant States; but they were carried in the committee against his negative vote. Journal of the Committee of Thirty
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)
e asked why, if Sumner and others thinking with him desired suffrage for the negroes, they did not say so broadly, and Sumner answered promptly from his seat, I do say so. A few days later Sumner called for full information concerning the provisional governors appointed by the President and the action of the Southern conventions and legislatures. Soon after he drew attention to the illegal appointments at the South of persons unable to take the required oath of loyalty. January 5, 11; February 2; Congressional Globe, pp. 129, 184, 185, 593. The protests against the President's policy came from the people more tardily than otherwise, on account of certain conditions in the public mind which are not revealed in the debates in Congress. The country sought repose after the war, and was not in the mood for a severe civil conflict. Wise men feared the effects on our polity of a prolonged military administration at the South, and were anxious for a speedy restoration of civil gover
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, chapter 10 (search)
nsion of Secretary Stanton, which took place the preceding August; but the president, notwithstanding the refusal to the concur, removed Mr. Stanton, February 21, in violation, as alleged, of the Tenure-of-Office Act. Sumner wrote in pencil, February 2, from his seat to Stanton a note with the single word stick in the body of it, which for a while had currency in political discussions. The note came into the possession of Ben Perley Poore, and was sold in 1888 at an auction in Boston to a Ne of Mr. Banks's projects,—March 2 and 3, 1669 (Globe, pp. 1819, 1828, 1864). the maintenance of mixed courts in Africa for the suppression of the slave-trade under the treaty with Great Britain, and the payment of salaries to the judges. Feb. 1, 2, and 3 (Congressional Globe, pp. 765-767, 783-786, 818). The New York World, with reference to this debate, referred, February 5, to his dictatorship in the Senate. He wrote to Dr. Howe, Jan. 1869:— It is difficult to understand the preci