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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)
maintain them against the expected pressure for compromise. The key to his new departure is most likely to be found in his personal and political intimacy, begun at Washington, with Mr. Seward; and their speeches in the session of 1860-1861 bear intrinsic evidence of a common understanding as to a course of action which was more in harmony with the character of Seward than with that of Adams. Adams, as member of the Corwin committee of Thirty-three, moved two propositions, December 28 and 29, Mr. Adams, in his letter to G. H. Monroe, April 17, 1861, states that the propositions, prepared by others, were handed to him by Corwin, who thought they would have more effect coming from him than from any other member of the committee. It is likely that they were drawn by Seward, who had moved the amendment to the Constitution in the Senate committee of Thirteen.—one a constitutional amendment excluding any amendment of the Constitution concerning slavery unless proposed by a slave Sta
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)
espatch, that a packet running bona fide from one neutral port to another neutral port cannot contain contraband of war, and that despatches or communications of any kind from one belligerent to a neutral power are not contraband, and are not liable to seizure or detention as such. The assertion also of the right to hold the men in case of a national exigency was a notice that our government might repeat the act at any time in its discretion. Mr. Fish, then in private life, wrote Sumner, December 29:— The state department's letter to Lord Lyons scarcely justified the declaration attributed to you in your gentle rebuke to Hale that the matter was in able hands. In style it is verbose and egotistical; in argument, flimsy; and in its conception and general scope it is an abandonment of the high position we have occupied as a nation upon a great principle. We are humbled and disgraced, not by the act of the surrender of four of our own citizens, but by the manner in which it has
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)
rson, placing him elsewhere without consulting him, and substituting Conkling in his stead. Sumner objected to parting with Patterson without the latter's consent, and, Wilson coming to his aid, was able to keep the committee as before. The fact that the change was agitated found its way into the public journals and the debates in the Senate. Dec. 21, 1870, Congressional Globe, pp. 230, 241; March 10, 1871. Globe, pp. 39, 42, 47; New York Herald, Dec. 9, 1870; New York Evening Post, December 29. The President in his message had asked for a commission to negotiate a treaty with the authorities of San Domingo for the acquisition of that island. Congress was not deemed to be in a mood to go so far, and Morton introduced a resolution on the sixth day of the session for a commission to investigate and report concerning the condition of the people and various points affecting the question of annexation. Its consideration was pressed to the exclusion of Sumner's earlier call for