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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)
s: Facilities for soldiers obtaining tobacco, which he opposed, Feb. 25, 1863,—a service which called out a grateful letter from the anti-tobacco enthusiast, Rev. George Trask; the exemption from conscription of clergymen, which he advocated, Feb. 16, 1863 (Works, vol. VII. pp. 303-306),—making a similar effort at the next session, Jan. 14 and 18, 1864 (Congressional Globe, pp. 204-255); other points in the conscription bill, Feb. 16, 1863 (Globe, pp. 985, 986, 988); the bill creating the natiFeb. 16, 1863 (Globe, pp. 985, 986, 988); the bill creating the national bank system, Feb. 9, 1863; the reported sale of colored freedmen by the rebels, Dec. 3, 1862; sale of land in the Sea Islands of South Carolina forfeited for taxes, with reference to the interests of freedmen, Jan. 9 and 26, 1863 (Globe, pp. 245, 507, 508); the bill to punish correspondence by American citizens resident abroad with the Confederate government or its agents, Jan. 7 and Feb. 13, 1863 (Globe, pp. 214, 925); carrying into effect the convention with Peru for the settlement of cl
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)
direction, Sumner wrote of Jenckes at a later period: When I think of Mr. Jenckes's work in Congress, I feel that he should not give place except to a superlative character. by introducing a bill, April 30, 1864, to provide a competitive system of examination for admission to and promotion in the civil service,—making merit and fitness the standard, to be determined by a board of examiners, and prohibiting removals except for good cause. Works, vol. VIII. pp. 452-457. He favored, Feb. 16, 1863, the discarding personal and political favoritism in the selection of midshipmen, and was one of only six senators who voted to limit the existing power of members of Congress to select them at will. (Works, vol. VII. pp. 301, 302.) Sumner took occasion, April 21, 1869 (Works, vol. XIII. pp. 94-97), to discredit any rule or practice for apportioning appointments among the States according to their population. The bill was Sumner's own conception, drawn without conference with or sugge