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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)
sion. His persistence in opposing a limitation of the session, even under the oppressive heat of the summer, brought him sometimes into collision with senators who, though not laggards, took a less exacting view of official duty, or who thought, sometimes quite rightly, that enough had already been done, and what remained would ripen for better action during the vacation. July 2, 1864 (Works, vol. IX. pp. 55-63; Globe, p. 3502). June 25, 1864 (Globe, p. 3263). March 31 and April 7 and 8, 1869 (Globe, pp. 384, 607, 609). Sumner's superlative fidelity may be thought finical, but it attests the seriousness with which he regarded all public duties. Sumner's presence in the Senate was always one of dignity, such as became the office and place. He never descended to frivolity; he did not, as is the habit of restless members, keep passing from seat to seat, indulging in small talk with one or another, but remained mostly in his own; Douglas's swagger up and down the aisles is stil
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)
his amendment. This Act took effect March 3; Sumner treated the exclusion of colored persons from the ordinary railway carriages as a corporate malfeasance, even at common law, and before the statute of March 3 took effect sought, Feb. 20, 1865, the repeal of the charter of a company which enforced the exclusion. (Congressional Globe, pp. 915, 916.) He called attention in the Senate, Feb. 10 and 17, 1868 (Globe, pp. 1071, 1204), to a similar denial of right. He sought in the session of 1869-1870 the repeal of the charter of a medical society in Washington because of its exclusion of colored physicians as members. Dec. 9, 1860, Works, vol. XIII. pp. 186-188; March 4, 1870, Globe, pp. 1677, 1678. but as one of the companies maintained the exclusion in defiance of the statute, the senator notified its managers of his purpose to move the forfeiture of its charter, and further, made a formal complaint against them to the lawofficer of the District. This ended the contest, and fro
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 52: Tenure-of-office act.—equal suffrage in the District of Columbia, in new states, in territories, and in reconstructed states.—schools and homesteads for the Freedmen.—purchase of Alaska and of St. Thomas.—death of Sir Frederick Bruce.—Sumner on Fessenden and Edmunds.—the prophetic voices.—lecture tour in the West.—are we a nation?—1866-1867. (search)
nator from Massachusetts steps out boldly, declares his doctrine, and then he is approached [reproached?], and finally he governs. He referred probably to his remarks, June 24, 1864. Doolittle's remarks (June 6, 1868, Globe. p. 2898, and Feb 9, 1869. Globe. p. 1031) were to the same effect. During the debates on reconstruction and suffrage, Sumner's style of treating his Republican opponents was not altogether agreeable to them. He had an insight into the rebellion which they had not had by one of their number, General Raasloff, who having been at one time consul-general in New York, and later Danish minister at washington, came to the country at this time to press the treaty, and remained in Washington during the winter of 1868-1869, covering the last of Johnson's and the first month of Grant's Administration. Raasloff, to whom Sumner seems to have been personally attracted, was allowed every opportunity to press the treaty. He was heard before the committee on foreign rela
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, chapter 10 (search)
ayments.—the national election of 1868.—fourth election to the senate.—the fifteenth amendment.—the senator's works. 1867-1869. As Sumner left for Washington in November, 1867, he bade a final adieu to the paternal home in Boston, 20 Hancock Streetof distinction came to Washington without partaking of his hospitality. He would say to Schurz, who entered the Senate in 1869, Come and dine with me to-day, and I will show you another Englishman. Those who sat at his table recall his cordial gried at a later session. Sumner made a full report on the subject April 1, 1869, and pressed the claim in the session of 1869-1870. June 6, July 6, 1870 (Congressional Globe, pp. 4146, 5293). Other subjects to which Sumner gave attention during revenue, but nothing about the rights of man to be maintained in all their fulness; but I hope for the best. Early in 1869 a plan was brought to a head which Sumner had long had in mind,.—a complete edition of his speeches and writings, revis
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 54: President Grant's cabinet.—A. T. Stewart's disability.—Mr. Fish, Secretary of State.—Motley, minister to England.—the Alabama claims.—the Johnson-Clarendon convention.— the senator's speech: its reception in this country and in England.—the British proclamation of belligerency.— national claims.—instructions to Motley.—consultations with Fish.—political address in the autumn.— lecture on caste.—1869. (search)
tructions to Motley.—consultations with Fish.—political address in the autumn.— lecture on caste.—1869. President Grant, as was to be expected from one whose career had been hitherto exclusively miom his taking his seat as a Whig in the Senate at the same time with Sumner in December, 1851, to 1869, a period of eighteen years, including the period of his severance from public affairs for twelveeir ships could issue, and no courts before which their prizes could be brought. A repetition in 1869 of what was said in 1863 could be no surprise. Sumner's positions in his speech, April 13, 186cognized as belligerents on the ocean, on the same grounds that Sumner took in 1863, and later in 1869. they a-firmed it to be the first unfriendly or wrongful proceeding of which they [losses by the ou at the earliest convenient time. Faithfully yours, Hamilton Fish. When the vacation of 1869 ended, Sumner was in full accord with the Administration on all questions. The state department
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)
with the presedent.—opposition to the annexation; its defeat.—Mr. Fish.—removal of Motley.—lecture on Franco-Prussian War.—1869-1870. The chair of Fessenden was vacant when the Senate convened, Dec. 6, 1869, he having died September 8. Sumner pai was then president by a popular vote. Seward referred him to Sumner, who gave him no countenance. In the winter of 1868-1869 he sent to Washington a confidential envoy (Louis Paul Argenard), and also an American resident of the island (J. W. Fabenis seen in the unanimous disfavor which the St. Thomas treaty, negotiated by Mr. Seward, encountered in the Senate in 1868-1869, and the resolution of the House, Nov. 25, 1867, against such purchases; as also in the action of the last-named body in J 461); but the senator's private correspondence and public speeches disprove the suggestion. All was peace at the close of 1869; but a dark cloud was coining on the horizon. The day after the President's call, Babcock called on the senator and
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)
8. The American commissioners were Fish, Schenck, E. R. Hoar, Judge Nelson, and G. H. Williams; the British commissioners were Earl de Grey (afterwards Marquis of Ripon), Sir Stafford Northcote (afterwards Lord Iddlesleigh), Professor Mountague Bernard, Sir Edward Thornton, and Sir John Macdonald. Just then came the dismissal from the post he had long held of the statesman who had studied the questions at issue more than any one of his countrymen, and whose treatment of them in his speech in 1869 had led the British Cabinet to see the necessity of an early settlement. Sumner said nothing; but it would not have been human in him not to feel a pang at being left out of the historic debate at its final stage. In view of the statements made in debate March 10, apparently on Mr. Fish's authority as to their personal relations, the senator prepared a statement concerning them shortly after. It was intended as a speech to be made in the Senate; but friends, who believed that its deliver
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)
quietly asked him for his resignation, neither then nor afterwards explaining to him why he took the step. This was stated to the writer by Mr. Jewell himself. and of the impeachment of Belknap, Secretary of War, for corruption in office, from whom the President parted with a too friendly acceptance of his resignation. Later Administrations,—those of Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland, and Harrison,—have happily escaped the succession of scandals which distinguished the civil service from 1869 to 1877. The demoralization of that period is chargeable in some degree to war, which always brings vices in its train; but it was also due largely to the President's too good opinion of men of easy virtue and his lax treatment of them when they were found out. This came to be the opinion of the American people, who, ever grateful for his service in the army and ready to confer on him any military rank or emolument, were determined in the purpose not to prolong his civil administration by a
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Note. (search)
20, 1874. 13. Medallion, by Margaret Foley; taken from sittings in 1865, and given by the family of James T. Furness to Harvard College. 14. Photographs, by Black of Boston; one reproduced in Harper's Weekly, March 24, 1866; and another in 1869, reproduced in Harper's Weekly, March 28, 1874, and engraved in Sumner's Works. 15. Photograph, by Brady of Washington, in 1869; reproduced in Every Saturday, March 4, 1871 (a weekly newspaper published in Boston), in Memorial History of Boston1869; reproduced in Every Saturday, March 4, 1871 (a weekly newspaper published in Boston), in Memorial History of Boston, vol. III. p. 391, and in this Memoir (vol. III.). 16. Photographs, by Warren of Cambridge, about 1870-1871,—one standing, one sitting with a cane, one holding a French newspaper, and one reproduced in the Memorial volume published by the city of Boston in 1874. 17. Portrait, by William M. Hunt, not from sittings, but following Allen and Rowell's photograph. 18. Portrait, by Edgar Parker, for which sittings were given in Boston in 1873. Mr. Parker painted three portraits,—one now bel
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, chapter 18 (search)
29). Scribner's Magazine (November, 1887) contained a paper entitled A Diplomatic Episode, by Miss Olive Risley Seward, which undertakes to narrate the negotiations with Denmark for the purchase of the islands of St. Thomas and St. John in 1866-1869 by Mr. Seward (then Secretary of State), and the connection of the Senate committee on foreign relations (Mr. Sumner being chairman) with its consideration and failure of ratification. With many words, the introduction of superfluous incidents an, and died in the suburb of Passy, Feb. 14, 1883, at the age of sixty-seven. He was in New York in May, 1872, but he had become soured by disappointment, and kept aloof from Washington. Within a month before General Raasloff left Washington in 1869, there was a new President, General Grant, and a new Secretary of State, Mr. Fish, neither of whom showed favor to the treaty, the former dismissing it summarily as a scheme of Seward's, and he would have nothing to do with it; and the latter send
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