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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, chapter 19 (search)
e easy to detect than the considerations governing the action of public men who are co-operating in the support of a measure. Mr. Davis's explanation why this reason remained a profound secret will not stand a moment's scrutiny. If reasons of state required senators to keep this cause for the removal a secret, the secret would have come out when those reasons of state ceased to operate; and they ceased entirely to operate when the Treaty of Washington had been concluded and ratified in June, 1871. The fact that this alleged cause for removal was not made public then, or whenever after the causes of the removal were canvassed by senators, proves that it never existed, that it never had any place in their minds, that it was never communicated to them. It was not mentioned by Mr. Conkling when he defended the removal in his speech at Cooper Institute, July 23, 1872; nor in the debate in the Senate, April 28, 1874, when it was explained or defended by Howe, Hamlin, Anthony, and Camer