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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 46: qualities and habits as a senator.—1862. (search)
and habits as a senator.—1862. Sumner was from the beginning of his career in the Senate an interesting, and he had now become the most conspicuous, figure at the Capitol. His seat was first inquired for by visitors. Pall Mall Gazette, Dec. 26, 1866. The correspondent remarked upon the public interest in Sumner,—greater than in any other senator,—as also upon his qualities of intellect and character, saying that his motto might well be Frangi non flecti. Person, fame, suffering, accompltain measure of these noble qualities, their fullest development must be found in our time in two kindred characters,— John Bright and Charles Sumner. See estimates in W. H. Channing's Life, by O. B. Frothingham, p. 367; Pall Mall Gazette, Dec. 26, 1866; Harper's Weekly, March 24, 1866; New York Herald, Dec 28, 1871, containing an article, in the characteristic style of that journal, from a correspondent who mingles praise and dispraise. J. W. Forney wrote of Sumner (Anecdotes of public Me
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)
next session, March 27, 1867 (Congressional Globe, pp. 393, 394), Banks carried through the House unanimously a resolution of sympathy with the Fenian movement for Irish independence, but Sumner retained it with his committee. He also required a similar resolution of Senator Nye to lie over. March 12, 1867, Globe, p. 68. It is one of the many illustrations of his serenity of mind and fidelity to principle in the midst of popular frenzy. An American writer for the Pall Mall Gazette, Dec. 26, 1866, by no means an admirer of Sumner, wrote that his influence on foreign questions was far beyond that of any other American, having in several instances prevailed over Seward. Referring to his interposition at this time, he said that no other man could have arrested by his single voice a measure unanimously passed by the House as Mr. Sumner did, as in the case of the late measure abolishing the American neutrality laws. Bright wrote to Sumner, Aug. 16, 1866:— I am sorry to see