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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)
fountain of mischief and bloodshed, a direct encouragement and overture to the Rebellion, . . . the first stage to independence, a half-way house to recognition, a blunder as well as a Crime, Later he called it the first stage of evidence. March, 1871; Works, vol. XIV. p. 273.—a proceeding altogether unjustifiable and illegal in establishing ocean belligerency when (a point on which Sumner always laid great stress) the Confederates had no ports from which their ships could issue, and no co O. W. Holmes treats the controversy in his Memoir of Motley, pp 155-190. John Jay reviews it in his Motley's Appeal to History (International Review, November, 1877, pp. 838-854). Sumner touches certain points concerning it in his statement, March, 1871; Works, vol. XIV. pp. 251-276. New York Tribune, April 6, 1874. It will only be referred to incidentally in these pages when it comes into connection with Sumner's relations to the Administration. He wrote to Cushing, July 19:— There i
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)
his disclaimer, saying: I have never alluded to the President in executive session except in most respectful kindness, and I challenge anybody to say the contrary. （In Senate, Dec. 21, 1870, Congressional Globe, pp. 217, 218. 247. Statement, March, 1871, Works, vol. XIV. p. 257.) The President, however, assumed otherwise in communicating to Congress the report of the commissioners to San Domingo. All question is settled on tills point by a letter from Senator Howe, always the President's pay, and who in character and position carried greater weight than Nye. Mr. Fish, as might have been expected from one of his conservative temperament, was at first no better affected towards the annexation than Sumner; Sumner's Statement, March, 1871, p. 259; H. B. Adams in North American Review, July, 1870. p. 57; Gen. J. D. Cox's notice of General Grant in the New York Nation, July 30, 1885. Badeau says for once what was doubtless true: Even when Grant determined on a course that Fish w
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, chapter 19 (search)
treaty, and found him obstructive or indifferent; or when, if ever, Mr. Fish solicited Mr. Sumner's attention for the purpose, and it was not given. Many notes of Mr. Fish to Mr. Sumner are preserved, mostly of a very familiar character, mingling public and social affairs, and in not one of them is there a suggestion that any treaty has been neglected; not one speaks of delay or calls for action. The testimony of senators who were serving with Mr. Sumner at the time of his removal in March, 1871, is here given. Messrs. Patterson, Schurz, and Casserly were members of the committee on foreign relations at that time. Messrs. Casserly, Thurman, and Bayard were his political opponents; and with some of the others, for instance Mr. Trumbull, he had at times strong antagonisms on public questions. But whatever their differences, political or personal, they have cheerfully borne their emphatic testimony to the remarkable fidelity of their deceased colleague. Ex-Senator Patterson of