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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)
er made an elaborate reply to Sumner, Morton, and Edmunds. He thought Sumner a vaulting logician, and asked him to descend from his tripod, to emerge from his oracular and profane mysteries, and meet the precise questions. April 5. Congressional Globe, pp. 2425. 2426. He chafed under the charge made by Morton and Yates in the earlier debate on Mississippi as well as now by Sumner, that he was maintaining State rights in the Calhoun sense. Feb. 14, 1870. Congressional Globe, pp. 1257, 1258. He was very impatient with Sumner's habit of referring to the Declaration of Independence as a source of power; and after the manner of Rufus Choate, whose pupil he had been, he spoke of the generalities of that revolutionary pronunciamento. April 5. 1870; Congressional Globe, p. 2425. Carpenter was not satisfied with his own phrase, and in a later contention with Sumner withdrew it, saying it was an unfortunate expression, and uttered in the heat of an extempore debate (Feb. 1, 1872, Glo