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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)
the free States. He proposed by a constitutional amendment to prohibit slavery in territory north of 36° 30', but to establish or recognize it as existing in territory south of that line, both as to territory hereafter Mr. Crittenden said, February 12, that he did not intend to insist on the term hereafter if it stood in the way of a settlement. acquired as well as to that now held, imposing on the territorial government the duty to protect it; to disable Congress from abolishing slavery innuary 25. The city council by formal vote approved the Crittenden scheme. A petition in its support, with more than twenty thousand names procured in the cities and towns of the State, was, after being wrapped in the American flag, presented, February 12, by Mr. Crittenden in the Senate. Sumner, though keeping aloof from debates, was unwilling that the State should be put in a false position, and after Crittenden had presented the petition, took occasion at once to explain the character and e
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)
morning of the day when the vote was taken, a brief and confidential note, expressing the earnest hope that the amendment would not be defeated by his vote. The result was a disappointment in political quarters, and Sumner was held responsible for it. Stevens said in the House that the amendment had been slaughtered by a puerile and pedantic criticism, and by the united forces of self-righteous Republicans and unrighteous copperheads. The Boston Advertiser, February 27 and March 9, 10, 12, disapproved Sumner's opposition to the amendment. Sumner replied in its columns to its article of March 12 (Works, vol. x. pp. 375, 376). C. E. Norton in the New England Publication Society's paper, March 16, also took exception to the senator's course. There was a feeling among Republicans that the party would lose prestige with the people unless it carried through Congress some constitutional amendment concerning representation, and that it would enter at a disadvantage into a contest wit
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)
previous question shut off amendments. One of these members was Mr. Blaine, who sought to put into the bill a provision admitting to representation any of the States which accepted the fourteenth amendment and established impartial suffrage. Feb. 12, 13. 1867. Congressional Globe, pp. 1182, 1213. The Senate, which began to consider the bill February 15, passed most of the night in an earnest debate, not adjourning till 3 A. M. J. S Pike in the New York Tribune, Feb. 21, 1867, gives an aould be, brought back an old question always fruitful in stubborn contention. The House had passed Eliot's bill for civil government in Louisiana, providing a full method, and establishing suffrage without distinction of race or color. Feb. 11, 12. 1867. Congressional Globe, pp. 1129, 1175. which Sumner wished to be taken as a model, it being similar in tenor to one already offered by himself at the beginning of the previous session, Dec. 4, 1865. Works, vol. x. pp. 21-29. though going
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)
later, Schurz, whom the marquis had seen, reported what he had heard to Sumner, referring him to the marquis; and Sumner the communicated with the marquis (their first conversation in relation to it), who stated to the senator the facts within his knowledge. Sumner was always keen on the point of keeping our government strictly to its duty of observing the obligations of neutrality, and all the more so at this time when our case was pending against Great Britain. Accordingly he moved, February 12, resolutions of inquiry into the sale of arms to France, introduced by a preamble alleging the grounds of suspicion as they appeared. Two days later, without incriminating any one, he stated the reasons which called for an investigation. Congressional Globe, pp. 1008-1017. The Washington Capital wrote, Feb. 18, 1872: There is no disguising the fact that Sumner wrong is more a subject of admiration in the Senate galleries than any other senator right, and that even his enemies admire h