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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4 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)
ularly that of his committee, at all its stages. (5) Neglect of duty, if it had existed, would have been charged in the Senate March 10, 1871, when Sumner's adversaries were hard pressed for reasons justifying their action. IV. The three preceding pretexts failing, it was at last claimed that Sumner was an expected obstacle to the negotiations for the Treaty of washington; and by way of specification it was stated that in a memorandum sent to Mr. Fish two days after their conference, Jan. 15, 1871, he set forth as a condition or preliminary of settlement the withdrawal of Great Britain from her possessions on this continent. J. C. B. Davis, in the New York Herald, Jan. 4, 1878. See reply of Wendell Phillips to Davis's letter (New York Herald, Jan. 9, 1878; Boston Herald, Jan. 13, 1878). This final pretext or afterthought came out seven years after the date of the memorandum and four years after the senator's death. It was said to have been communicated to senators at the tim