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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)
ord Russell's despatch which was objectionable, and commended as favorable to us his recent reply in the House of Lords, March 23, to Lord Stratheden (Campbell). He treated the escape of the Alabama as an accident, and giving no case of quarrel. He It is twice. First, she declared neutrality between the two parties,—fatal mistake, from which Lord Russell's speech March 23, in which Earl Russell contended, in reply to Lord Stratheden (Campbell), that an offer of mediation would be premature, you may see how one who does not view England unkindly is constrained to judge recent events. Lord Russell's speech March 23, in the House of Lords. is in the right direction; but why was it not uttered a year ago? Those words would have gone f by Mr. Adams, was a rainbow; Mr. Adams, March 26, 1863, transmitted to Mr. Seward a copy of Lord Russell's speech of March 23, mentioning its better spirit, and the next day reported a long interview with him. On the 28th he transmitted a report
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)
Though with the President much during the intervening days before his death, this was the last business Mr. Sumner transacted with him. The rebellion had now reached its last stage. The President left Washington by boat on the Potomac, Thursday, March 23, for City Point, the headquarters of the army of Virginia, and did not return to Washington till Sunday evening, April 9. Mrs. Lincoln, who went with him, expecting their return to be earlier than it proved to be, invited Sumner by note, asf Congress, except the fourteenth amendment, as needless, violent, unstatesmanlike, and fanatical. The New York Times, in successive leaders, took positive ground against negro suffrage as any part of the reconstruction. March 2; June 3, 19, 21, 23, 24, 26, 28, 29. The Cincinnati Commercial printed eleven years later letters found in Andrew Johnson's office at Greenville, Tenn., after his death, which approved his policy of reconstruction at the outset. Among them were letters and telegrams
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)
New Jersey by a plurality which it had been agreed in joint convention of the two houses of the State should be decisive, and whose vote in the Senate made the majority by which his title was affirmed, Sumner made the test motions on which the decision was finally against his right to vote, and in debate reviewed at length the power of a State legislature or joint convention to establish a plurality as a sufficient vote to elect, and also the right of a senator to vote on his own title. March 23 and 26. Works, vol. x. pp. 377-390, 391-405. Trumbull, of the judiciary committee, supported the validity of Stockton's election; but Fessenden and Sumner were in agreement against it. This contested case led to a bill passed by this Congress for regulating the election of senators; in the debate upon it Sumner defended its provision for open voting, and distinguished between legislative and popular elections. July 11. Works, vol. x. pp. 481-485. Tributes to three public men came
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)
ring the predominance of the colored race in the West Indies. To the African, he is reported to have said, belongs the equatorial belt, and he should enjoy it undisturbed. Caleb Cushing wrote, March 25:— You must be gratified to find that all the journals commend your speech on Dominica, especially seeing that these outside opinions are, of course, but the echo of the judgments of senators. J. R. Hawley, late governor of Connecticut, and afterwards senator, wrote from Hartford, March 23:— What little I see concerning your speech on San Domingo greatly pleases me. The course of the government for several years in these matters is demoralizing and dangerous. I would not have an Administration negotiate an acquisition in time of peace without the previous consent of Congress. We don't want any of those islands just yet, with their mongrel, cut-throat races and foreign languages and religion. Sumner completed his speech on the second day, and was followed by Morto
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)
rs; but he was not impressed with the suggestion of delay, as his positions were quite independent of any investigations and conclusions they might bring back. In his effort to be heard again he encountered a restrictive rule in the Senate, adopted for the session, excluding general legislation, and limiting the subjects for consideration to a few specially designated. This obstruction he overcame by a decision of the Vice-President in his favor against Conkling's prolonged resistance; March 23 and 24. Congressional Globe, pp. 233-235, 250-256. and on Friday, March 24, he obtained the floor for the next Monday. At nine o'clock on that day the people began to gather in the galleries of the Senate chamber, and by eleven had filled them. Thousands sought entrance in vain, and a throng lingered outside during the afternoon, awaiting any vacant space. Ladies by special privilege were admitted to the cloak-rooms and corridors, and later on they pressed into the body of the chamber
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)
ame weapons. His pictures of them had the venom without the wit of caricature; and treating thieves and senators alike, he confounded moral distinctions. His representations of Schurz were the most open to censure, March 9, Mephistopheles. March 23, 30, as Iago. Justices Chase and Davis are caricatured April 6. though those of Sumner were hardly less reprehensible. New York Tribune, March 21, 1872. In his support of the French arms investigation he was made one of The Senatorial Cabal.ple and self-denying ordinance of his predecessors, to seek a third term, when after a tour round the world he found private life monotonous. He was unfortunate in bringing to the White House staff-officers—the military ring Harper's Weekly, March 23. denied the existence of the military ring, but said that the President had commended to the Collector at New York his former aid, Leet, who was interested in the general order scandal. as it was called—who had been his familiars in camp, but w
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 59: cordiality of senators.—last appeal for the Civil-rights bill. —death of Agassiz.—guest of the New England Society in New York.—the nomination of Caleb Cushing as chief-justice.—an appointment for the Boston custom-house.— the rescinding of the legislative censure.—last effort in debate.—last day in the senate.—illness, death, funeral, and memorial tributes.—Dec. 1, 1873—March 11, 1874. (search)
ad an interview with Charles Kingsley (they had not met before), whose daughter, with him at the time, wrote that notwithstanding former differences on American matters, the moment the two came face to face all mistrust vanished, as each instinctively recognized the manly honesty of the other, and they had a long and friendly talk. Charles Kingsley's Life, vol. II. pp. 426, 427. Mr. Kingsley delivered a lecture in Washing-ton the same evening on Westminster Abbey. He wrote from Boston, March 23: Sumner's death has been an awful blow here; I do not wonder, for he was a magnificent man. He and I were introduced to each other an hour before his attack. He was most cordial, and we had much talk about Gladstone and the A's [Argylls]. His last words to me were that he was going to write to the Duchess of Argyll the next day. Alas! I wrote to her for him to tell her particulars of the end. Mr. Kingsley is here in error as to the time of their meeting, as it was several hours before th