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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)
in a speech at Steubenville, Ohio. This discovery put Sumner at a disadvantage. There is no doubt that Stanton had said to Sumner and to others, among then Mr. Hooper and Horace White, just what the senator stated he had said; Sumner had a year before his speech freely mentioned in conversation and correspondence Stanton's communication to him. (Edward Eggleston, in New York Tribune, March 21, 1874; Frothingham's Life of Gerrit Smith, pp. 331, 334, 336, where the senator's letter of Aug. 28, 1871. is given.) Stanton's statement to Horace White may be found in Senate debate, June 6, 1872 (Congressional Globe, p. 4283). Stanton was not in a pleasant mood towards Grant after the latter took his place as Secretary of War under Johnson. (Radeau's Grant in Peace, p. 94.) Grant has in several passages of his Personal Memoirs perpetuated his unfriendly sentiments towards Stanton. and there is also no doubt that he said the contrary in the speech cited. It is not the first time, as it