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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 July 2nd or search for July 2nd in all documents.

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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 49: letters to Europe.—test oath in the senate.—final repeal of the fugitive-slave act.—abolition of the coastwise slave-trade.—Freedmen's Bureau.—equal rights of the colored people as witnesses and passengers.—equal pay of colored troops.—first struggle for suffrage of the colored people.—thirteenth amendment of the constitution.— French spoliation claims.—taxation of national banks.— differences with Fessenden.—Civil service Reform.—Lincoln's re-election.—parting with friends.—1863-1864. (search)
the training of pupils for the consular service; March 15, 1864. Works, vol. VIII. pp. 223-227. the raising of the mission to Belgium to a first-class rank; March 15. Works, vol. VIII. pp. 217-222. He wrote Lieber, March 17: I was badgered on all sides, but at last on ayes and noes carried it. national academies for the promotion of literature, art, and of the moral and political sciences,—a project in relation to which Lieber, Agassiz, and R. W. Emerson were his correspondents, July 2. Works, vol. IX. pp. 51-54. all of whom entered heartily into it; the prohibition of sales of gold deliverable at a future day; April 15. Congressional Globe, p. 1648. and several questions of internal taxation. July 4. Congressional Globe, pp. 3539, 3540. Sumner pleaded two days before the final adjournment that the time for closing the session should be extended beyond July 4, insisting that further financial legislation was imperatively required; but the senators, weary and
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)
fending it, that notwithstanding Great Britain still denied compensation for our just claims, our own country should be kept firm and constant in the attitude of justice. June 26. Works, vol. x. pp. 472-474. The Banks bill passed July 26, two days before the session closed, and was sent at once to the Senate, where Chandler undertook to force its passage, but in vain. Chandler, at the next session, undertook to carry a similar bill in the Senate, but was defeated in the attempt by Ssion of criminals pardoned by foreign governments on condition of emigrating to the United States, March 19 (Globe. pp. 1492, 1493); claims or compensation of persons connected with the foreign service of the government, March 15 and 16, May 16. July 2 and 3 Globe, pp. 1421, 1439, 1443, 2615, 2621, 3523, 3549): the mission to Portugal. July 20 (Globe. pp. 3952-3954); the editing of the Confederate archives. May 24 (Works, vol. x. pp. 464-467); the purchase of land for the navy yard at Charl
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)
with a view to prevent frauds in elections was pending, Sumner moved as an amendment a section striking out the word white from those laws wherever it occurred, so as to remove all distinctions of race or color in admitting to naturalization. July 2. Congressional Globe, pp. 5121-5124. the proposition had been embodied in a bill introduced by him and reported by the judiciary committee. Some senators who favored it thought it untimely, as imperilling a measure immediately needed to preventer, unlike his colleague Wilson, was not daunted by fears of an Oriental invasion; and again (it was the Fourth of July he stood on the Declaration of Independence, fortifying himself also with Scripture and Lincoln's argument against Douglas. July 2 and 4. Works, vol. XIII. pp. 474-498. His amendment was lost when he moved it at one stage, and was carried when he moved it at another but it was finally rejected by the combined votes of the Democratic senators, senators from the Pacific coas
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)
justice in his strictures on the President, but dissented from the arraignment as a whole, objecting that he did not look at both sides of the shield, and that his picture was too dark. Whittier thought him unduly severe in the tone and temper of his speech,—a feature which in his judgment diminished its effect; but he as well as Mrs. Child and James Freeman Clarke vindicated in letters to public journals his sincerity and right to be heard. Boston Transcript, June 5, 6; Boston Journal, July 2. Wendell Phillips wrote: I have been saying that your speech was all true, only it was not all the truth. You omit Grant's claims; some he can fairly make. Phillips distrusted as well as personally disliked Greeley; and he added this appeal: Come home and change the air before you follow Greeley's lead. You know no one is more tender of your good fame than I,—almost tempted sometimes to sacrifice principle as I see it in defence of what you do. He said to the writer at this time: Sumner