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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 50: last months of the Civil War.—Chase and Taney, chief-justices.—the first colored attorney in the supreme court —reciprocity with Canada.—the New Jersey monopoly.— retaliation in war.—reconstruction.—debate on Louisiana.—Lincoln and Sumner.—visit to Richmond.—the president's death by assassination.—Sumner's eulogy upon him. —President Johnson; his method of reconstruction.—Sumner's protests against race distinctions.—death of friends. —French visitors and correspondents.—1864-1865. (search)
, would have consented to the admission of Louisiana at this time, with a positive disclaimer that such admission was not to be a precedent, and with satisfactory conditions as to other States. Boston Commonwealth, March 11, 1865; Advertiser, Jan. 7, 1871; ante, p. 205. The narrative now reaches, so far as the Senate is concerned, the debate on Trumbull's resolution reported Feb. 18, 1865, from the committee on the judiciary, recognizing as the legitimate government of Louisiana the one fored his [Mr. Sumner's] reconstruction theories. The inference was not justified; but, as Sumner wrote subsequently, the President recognized the right of Mr. Sumner to his individual judgment. Works, vol. IX. pp. 323, 324; Boston Advertiser, Jan. 7, 1871. Mrs. Lincoln had some time before conceived an admiration for Sumner's personal qualities and public work. It was shown not only in counsels with him on pending questions, but in friendly acts—sometimes in flowers sent to his lodgings, a
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)
ister to England; Motley's resignation was called for, but as he refused to give it he remained some months at his post. Mr. Fish, in calling for his resignation, wrote him a private letter expressing regret that the change was to be made, and that he had to be the agent in communicating it. and the public, as well as Sumner, connected the two events as cause and effect. This was the inference in England as well as in the United States. London Times, Jan. 24, 1871; Harper's Weekly, Jan. 7, 1871. The President's friends at times attempted to disconnect them by giving reasons to show that the minister was already weak in his hold upon the place; but they have substantially admitted that the time chosen for the removal had reference to the rejection. J. C. B. Davis in New York Herald, Jan. 4, 1878; Badeau's Grant in Peace, p. 216. In order to escape just indignation at an act of revenge, Lord Clarendon's death, June 27, was set up as determining the time of removal,—that being c
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)
n advantage thereby to themselves, had been doing their best to inflame the President's mind against the senator; and then as always he lent a too ready ear to suggestions unfriendly to those who had thwarted his will. Sumner on arriving in Washington, in December, was assured from various quarters that the President was angry with him, and had even said that but for the dignity of his office as President he would call the senator to account. Works, vol. XIV. p. 256; Harper's Weekly, Jan. 7, 1871; Boston Journal, Dec. 21, 1870. Threats also had been uttered by Babcock, which at one time he denied, and at another admitted. Attempts at reconcilement between the President and the senator were made, most likely by Wilson, who was always a peacemaker; but according to the report, the President, manifesting a good deal of feeling, refused to give his consent to any movement having in view a reconciliation. At length, in the third week of the session there came out in a newspaper a s
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)
urz, the secretary (Jan. 24, 1871) stopped the sale of arms altogether. The Secretary of State, to whom Schurz applied, was opposed to the sale of arms to the belligerents. Naturalized citizens of German nativity were sensitive when the sale of arms to France by our government became known. Gustavus Koerner, of Illinois, directed Sumner's attention to the testimony in a French trial, which stated that such sales were taking place. Mr. Bancroft, our minister at Berlin, in a despatch, Jan. 7, 1871, also called attention to them. Curiously enough, however, the Prussian government did not complain of the sales, and Bismarck was reported to have said that it was cheaper to capture the arms on the Loire than to buy them in Washington. Sumner thought this courageous gayety no excuse for indifference to a violation of international law. Feb. 16, 1872, Congressional Globe, p. 1072; Works, vol. XV. p. 22. Meantime, however, the ordnance bureau manufactured for Richardson a large qua