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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 45: an antislavery policy.—the Trent case.—Theories of reconstruction.—confiscation.—the session of 1861-1862. (search)
enty years. He wrote, July 11:— Dearest Longfellow,—God bless and comfort you! I am overwhelmed with grief, and long to be with you. Nothing but duties here, which cannot be postponed, prevents me from going on at once! And again, July 21:— Dearest Longfellow,—Daily, hourly, constantly I think of you, and my thoughts end with myself; for I cannot forget my own great and irreparable loss. In all visions of life I have always included her, for it never occurred to me thauly 11: Our conservative people were timid and vexed, but they had to vote right at last. but this was almost their only demonstration during the first three months after the assault on Fort Sumter. The defeat of the Union forces at Bull Run, July 21, marks an important change in popular feeling. While it mortified the national pride and dissipated the hope of a speedy close of the war, it led the people to reflect more seriously than before on the character of the struggle and the necess
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)
, must not, end till then. Sumner was interested in the project of an equestrian statue of Colonel Shaw, and contributed a paper to the Boston Advertiser, Oct. 2, 1865 (Works, vol. IX. pp. 493-497), in favor of the statue, proposing as its site the terrace in front of the State House in Boston. He took part in a public meeting for the purpose, and was appointed a member of the committee to carry out the plan. It was suspended for many years, but was revived in 1891. To Mr. Bright, July 21:— I have read the debate of the 30th of June. On Roebuck's motion for the recognition of the Southern Confederacy. Bright's Speeches, vol. i. p. 267. Your last words touched the whole question to the quick. The guilt of this attempt is appalling; but next to the slave-mongers is England, with a grinning neutrality. My friend Mr. Gladstone dealt with the whole question as if there were no God. Englishmen may doubt. I tell you, there can be but one end to this war. I care not f
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, chapter 10 (search)
s; The general sentiment of Pennsylvania corresponded with that of the West. Henry C. Carey wrote Sumner, Dec. 9, 1868, in opposition to a contraction of the currency; and the last words of Thaddeus Stevens in the House, within a month before his death, were for the payment of the five-twenties in paper currency. and some Republican leaders in that section, notably Hayes and Garfield, remained always steadfast in favor of an honest payment of the public debt. Garfield spoke, July 15 and 21, maintaining the national obligation to pay the five-twenties in coin, and replying to Butler of Massachusetts, and Pike of Maine, who had advocated the taxation of the national bonds. His position at this time, though against the apparent sentiment of his section of the country, led more than anything else to his selection for the Presidency in 1880. Sherman, chairman of the Senate finance committee, made a speech, Feb. 27, 1868, in which, taking ground against Edmunds and New England senato
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)
and in spite of the partisan clamor of the President's terriers, the little dogs and all,—Tray, Blanche, and Sweetheart,— see, they bark at you! But you who so long stood the fierce assaults of Southern bloodhounds, clamorous for your life, may easily bear the snarls of lapdogs! Gerrit Smith, a supporter of the President, admitting his own error of statement as to the cause of Sumner's estrangement from Grant, and accepting the senator's version, testified undiminished regard, and wrote, July 21: God forbid, my noble friend, that I should wrong you who have suffered more in the cause of freedom than any other living American! Later, pressing Sumner to be his guest at Peterborough, he wrote:— I never wanted to see you more than I do now. How glad I should be to have you spend a week with me on our healthy hills! Here are many Greeley Republicans. My only son is one of them; and here is a beautiful hall which I have just built for my town, and in it we should all love to lis<