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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4 2 2 Browse Search
Edward H. Savage, author of Police Recollections; Or Boston by Daylight and Gas-Light ., Boston events: a brief mention and the date of more than 5,000 events that transpired in Boston from 1630 to 1880, covering a period of 250 years, together with other occurrences of interest, arranged in alphabetical order 1 1 Browse Search
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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)
. He disclaimed in the debate any charge of corruption against the President and any imputation on his good faith or integrity. Afterwards, he denied with emphasis the charge that he had been influenced by personal hostility to the President, maintaining that he had abstained from any word of personality, and had been simply in earnest on a question of public duty where he felt profoundly that he was right. This appears in his letters at this time, one written to Mrs. J. T. Furness, Jan. 13, 1871. J. W. Forney's Anecdotes of Public men, vol. II. p. 263. See also letter to Gerrit Smith, Aug. 20, 1871, in the latter's Life, by Frothingham, p. 329. He Senate took a recess till half-past 7 in the evening, when Morton replied to Sumner. He repelled the charge of usurpation and the comparison of the President with Buchanan and Pierce, but passed lightly over the use of our ships in the Haytian and Dominican waters. Though predicting the annexation of San Domingo and also of Cuba and
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, chapter 19 (search)
thers in a way that leaves the reader in doubt whether he is reciting another's story or his own; talks of the thoughts, anxieties, remembrances, and states of mind of Mr. Fish, as if the two were one; and recounts frequent and long interviews at Mr. Fish's house (matters concerning which Mr. Fish is the only competent witness), and in some instances he differs radically from Mr. Fish's versions. He undertakes to say, giving no authority, what took place between Mr. Sumner and Mr. Fish, Jan. 13, 1871, at Mr. Sumner's house, when they two were alone together, and what Mr. Fish said to senators when he (Mr. Davis) does not claim to have been present. The paper abounds in vague phrases, as, it was said; it was no secret; one Republican senator went so far; the President and Mr. Fish stated to more than one senator; there appeared on the part of leading Republican members,—in all which the generality of allegation and suppression of names make any attempt to test the truth of the statem