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Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 96 96 Browse Search
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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4 8 8 Browse Search
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Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 5 5 Browse Search
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Browsing named entities in Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4. You can also browse the collection for February 28th or search for February 28th in all documents.

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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 48: Seward.—emancipation.—peace with France.—letters of marque and reprisal.—foreign mediation.—action on certain military appointments.—personal relations with foreigners at Washington.—letters to Bright, Cobden, and the Duchess of Argyll.—English opinion on the Civil War.—Earl Russell and Gladstone.—foreign relations.—1862-1863. (search)
New York Tribune and New York Times as to Seward's practice in submitting despatches to the President before they were sent. (New York Tribune, February 25, 26, and 28.) The articles in the Tribune, signed Truth and Courage, were written by James W. White, a member of the New York bar. The President stood firmly by the secretaorate resolutions for adoption by Congress. He carried them through his committee after some days of chaos and discord, with very slight amendment. Reported February 28, passed March 3. Works, vol. VII. pp. 307-312. Only five votes were given against them in the Senate, and those five from senators who had little or no sympat the first time, our position is fixed. The Secretary of War told me yesterday that our rolls showed eight hundred thousand men under arms,—all of them paid to February 28, better clothed and better fed than any soldiers ever before. He knows well that we may be doomed to other reverses; but he is sure that the war can end in onl
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 50: last months of the Civil War.—Chase and Taney, chief-justices.—the first colored attorney in the supreme court —reciprocity with Canada.—the New Jersey monopoly.— retaliation in war.—reconstruction.—debate on Louisiana.—Lincoln and Sumner.—visit to Richmond.—the president's death by assassination.—Sumner's eulogy upon him. —President Johnson; his method of reconstruction.—Sumner's protests against race distinctions.—death of friends. —French visitors and correspondents.—1864-1865. (search)
k, the giver thinking it appropriate to the senator as protector of the blacks. Upon Sumner's death, the lamp came into the possession of his friend, F. W. Bird.—friend of Tocqueville, and at one time French ambassador at Rome, whose acquaintance Sumner had made in Paris. The marquis was from that time a frequent visitor at Sumner's lodgings, and he continued for many years to live in Washington. Sumner, in his testimony in 1872 in the French arms investigation, as also in his speech February 28 of that year (Works, vol. XV. p. 9), spoke of the studies and eminent connections of the marquis. He died in New York in 1891. Agassiz sailed in April, 1865, on his expedition to Brazil and the Amazon. Sumner entered heartily into the plans of the great naturalist. He wrote to him a God-speed March 20, 1865. Life of Agassiz, by E. C. Agassiz, vol. II. p. 634. just before he sailed, and received letters in return in which Agassiz gave an account of his researches. June 21, 1
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)
ust, and he had always a keen sense of the dignity and decorum becoming to the Senate. The Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. McCulloch, a stout supporter of Johnson's policy, had appointed, contrary to the statute, officers in Southern States who could not take the required oath of loyalty,—justifying the illegal appointments on the ground that by the universal participation of the people in the rebellion no discrimination was possible. Feb. 7, 1867, Congressional Globe, pp. 1051-1053; February 28, Globe, pp. 1899, 1911. Sumner had at the time they were made in 1865 protested, in correspondence with the secretary, against his setting aside legal prohibitions on the plea of convenience or necessity. The disqualified persons were, however, kept in office, and Fessenden reported a bill for paying them, which passed the Senate, but was lost in the House. Sumner's opposition to the bill provoked Fessenden to some bitter reflections, of which Gillette, formerly a senator, wrote from H
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)
ident appointed as commissioners Benjamin F. Wade of Ohio, Andrew D. White of New York, and Samuel G. Howe of Massachusetts. Professor Agassiz declined an appointment, not wishing to take a place which might involve any semblance of antagonism to his friend the senator; but Dr. Howe was less considerate in this respect. The commission sailed Jan. 18, 1871, accompanied y Frederick Douglass, General Sigel, and several editors. They remained in San Domingo or its waters from January 23 to February 28, being engaged about five weeks in their observations. The character of their report was assured from the beginning. William L. Garrison wrote, Sumner's letter to Garrison is printed in the latter's Life, vol. IV. p. December 2:— I want to thank you for your recent speech in the Senate in opposition to the undesirable and uncalled — for scheme of President Grant for the annexation of San Domingo. With all my understanding, heart, and soul I am with you, both in the letter a
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)
spired by the controversy and by his audience, he never spoke in the Senate with such nervous energy, fire, and immediate effect. New York Tribune, February 21. See as to Schurz's other speeches in the debate, New York Tribune, February 26, 27, 28. The galleries were with him, and their outbursts of applause were with difficulty repressed by the chair. Sumner thanked him warmly, and said to others as well as to him that it was the greatest speech he had heard in the Senate for twenty years. or wrong: if right to be kept right, and if wrong to be set right! Harper's Weekly, April 20, 1872, took exception to Carpenter's standards of patriotism. a retort which drew applause from the galleries. Sumner made his principal speech February 28, in which he was more effective than when he opened the debate. Works, vol. XV. pp. 5-44; New York Tribune, February 29; New York Herald, February 29; Boston Journal, February 29. It was a calm and dignified statement, without personality