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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 52: Tenure-of-office act.—equal suffrage in the District of Columbia, in new states, in territories, and in reconstructed states.—schools and homesteads for the Freedmen.—purchase of Alaska and of St. Thomas.—death of Sir Frederick Bruce.—Sumner on Fessenden and Edmunds.—the prophetic voices.—lecture tour in the West.—are we a nation?—1866-1867. (search)
est of the senators, Sumner wrote out his speech for publication, and the injunction of secrecy was removed. The work of amplifying his original speech with details and authorities consumed six weeks,—the greater part of his time until his return to Boston in the last of May. He was assisted in obtaining materials by Professor Baird, Julius E. Hilgard 1825-1891; a native of Bavaria. of the coast survey, George Gibbs, Ante, vol. i. p. 92, note. an old friend of his student days, and C. C. Beaman, his secretary. No description of the territory both modern and complete existed. Sumner was obliged to grope among books and pamphlets, largely in foreign languages, some in the Russian, which were translated for him; and all these materials needed to be classified and arranged, as well as enlivened with comments which would attract public interest. The result was a marvel,—an essay or book rather than a speech, which sets out all that was then known of Russian America; its fisheries,
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, chapter 10 (search)
m in clerical and kindred services, and though engaged afterwards in professional or official work, came to his aid at intervals and was a devoted friend to the end. Other secretaries in succession, from 1863 to 1872, were Francis V. Balch, Charles C. Beaman, Moorfield Storey, and Edward J. Holmes, all graduates of Harvard College. The last, son of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, died in 1881; the other three hold an honorable place in the legal profession. Sumner's interest in them was personal aends saw,—a paternal, personal kindliness, of which I have a very grateful rememberance. He entered heartily into the connections for life which his young friends made, giving a dinner to Storey and his fiancee, a Washington lady, and writing to Beaman, Sept. 10, 1873, when the latter became engaged to Mr. Evarts's daughter, as follows: It is as it should be, and I wish a great deal of happiness to both of you. I remember Miss Evarts well. Lafayette would have said of you, Lucky dog! and kno