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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 59: cordiality of senators.—last appeal for the Civil-rights bill. —death of Agassiz.—guest of the New England Society in New York.—the nomination of Caleb Cushing as chief-justice.—an appointment for the Boston custom-house.— the rescinding of the legislative censure.—last effort in debate.—last day in the senate.—illness, death, funeral, and memorial tributes.—Dec. 1, 1873—March 11, 1874. (search)
aced as the principal guest. When he rose to answer to a toast to the Senate of the United States, the members stood up in mass, cheering loudly and waving handkerchiefs. Works, vol. XV. pp. 291-300. At several points he was interrupted with applause, and at the end the audience gave cheer upon cheer. These demonstrations were not merely formal and customary, but they were sincere expressions of respect and gratitude. Chauncey M. Depew, in a eulogy on General Sherman at Albany, March 29, 1892, stated that at a notable gathering in New York (meaning the New England dinner at Delmonico's) Sumner attacked General Grant as a failure in civil affairs, covertly alluding to him in remarks on Miles Standish, and was replied to by General Sherman. The statement has no basis of fact. Sumner did not then or at any other time after November, 1872. make the slightest reference in public to General Grant. Nothing in the language of either Sumner or General Sherman justified the imputat