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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 44: Secession.—schemes of compromise.—Civil War.—Chairman of foreign relations Committee.—Dr. Lieber.—November, 1860– April, 1861. (search)
ll as Tennessee and North Carolina, from joining the Confederacy. Sumner wrote, January 9, to F. W. Bird, who had advised an appeal by the Republican members of Congress to the people, stating the daoff as law extra-judicial opinions of a slaveholding bench of judges. Adams, in a letter to F. W. Bird, Feb. 16, 1861, though regarding Judge Taney's opinion as a dictum, thought it sure to be adope all sucked out. Pray keep our friends at Albany firm, firm, firm,—not a pepper corn. To F. W. Bird, January 28:— I read every word, although your letter was one of thirty brought me at th were B. R. Wood and G. E. Baker of Albany; David Dudley Field and Joshua Leavitt of New York; F. W. Bird, G. S. Boutwell, W. Claflin, J. T. Buckingham, Dr. Samuel Cabot, and E. L. Pierce of Massachusical. Naturally, Sumner was specially concerned for our representation abroad. He wrote to F. W. Bird, March 10:— There is chaos in our foreign system. But it is of incalculable importance <
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 45: an antislavery policy.—the Trent case.—Theories of reconstruction.—confiscation.—the session of 1861-1862. (search)
ling the slavery question in the Territories by the vote of the inhabitants. Vol. VI. pp. 504-509. Very early in the session he moved a resolution for legislation forbidding the army to be employed in the surrender of fugitive slaves,—a subject in which his colleague, chairman of the committee on military affairs, took a special interest. December 18. Works, vol. VI. pp. 145-149. A few months later during the same session the measure passed as an article of war. Sumner wrote to F. W. Bird, March 12, of this article: It is a triumph; it is the best act of the session; had it existed originally, it would have been next door to military emancipation. He moved his resolution in consequence of representations from Governor Andrew and other correspondents that certain officers, some of them from Massachusetts, had been returning fugitive slaves; and mentioned at the time Brigadier-General Charles P. Stone, who took notice of the reference in an insulting letter. General Stone w
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 47: third election to the Senate. (search)
II. pp. 339. 340, 361, 363. These relations hampered Mr. Dana, and he withheld from the convention the real grounds of his opposition, confining himself to the narrow point of expediency,—that the nominating resolution would not do the senator any good. When the customary motion for a committee on resolutions was made, Dana, fearing the composition of such a committee, moved as a substitute a brief resolution supporting the government in the prosecution of the war. J. Q. A. Griffin F. W. Bird, William Claflin, and other supporters of Sumner had selected Griffin in a conference as their leader in the convention. promptly moved an amendment, which approved the conduct of the two senators from Massachusetts, and nominated Sumner for re-election as a statesman, a scholar, a patriot, and a man of whom any republic in any age might be proud. He maintained his substitute in a trenchant speech, in which he handled roughly Dana and others co-operating with him. Mr. Griffin never took p
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 48: Seward.—emancipation.—peace with France.—letters of marque and reprisal.—foreign mediation.—action on certain military appointments.—personal relations with foreigners at Washington.—letters to Bright, Cobden, and the Duchess of Argyll.—English opinion on the Civil War.—Earl Russell and Gladstone.—foreign relations.—1862-1863. (search)
on of the negroes coming within our lines, and to propose methods for protecting and assisting them. Sumner hoped much from it. Its results were, however, inconsiderable; events rather than theories were to settle the problem. Sumner wrote to F. W. Bird, March 19:— At last the Freedman's Commission is organized,—Dale Owen, Howe, McKaye . . . .I have seen the commissioners, and like them much. They are excellent and admirable, and enter upon the work generously and nobly. They have invi. He had been its guest before at times, but he now when in Boston dined regularly with it at Parker's on its club day, the last Saturday of the month. On other Saturdays he dined at times at Parker's, with a political club of which his friend F. W. Bird was the leader; but his frequent dining with this club belongs to a period three or four years later. George Sumner, who had been smitten with paralysis two years before, died, October 6, at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Charles was w
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 50: last months of the Civil War.—Chase and Taney, chief-justices.—the first colored attorney in the supreme court —reciprocity with Canada.—the New Jersey monopoly.— retaliation in war.—reconstruction.—debate on Louisiana.—Lincoln and Sumner.—visit to Richmond.—the president's death by assassination.—Sumner's eulogy upon him. —President Johnson; his method of reconstruction.—Sumner's protests against race distinctions.—death of friends. —French visitors and correspondents.—1864-1865. (search)
al interest in reconstruction. Sumner's chief congratulations came therefore from the distinctively antislavery men—such as Wendell Phillips, Parker Pillsbury, F. W. Bird, F. B. Sanborn, Rev. George B. Cheever, and Frederick Douglass. A letter from the writer, March 4, who little thought then of his future connection with the me, with his frank in the upper right-hand corner, where with us the frank is written. I send them as autographs, which may interest some of your friends. To F. W. Bird, April 25:— I have seen a good deal of the new President, and have conversed on questions of business and of general policy. His manner has been excellenf his flock, the giver thinking it appropriate to the senator as protector of the blacks. Upon Sumner's death, the lamp came into the possession of his friend, F. W. Bird.—friend of Tocqueville, and at one time French ambassador at Rome, whose acquaintance Sumner had made in Paris. The marquis was from that time a frequent visit<
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 51: reconstruction under Johnson's policy.—the fourteenth amendment to the constitution.—defeat of equal suffrage for the District of Columbia, and for Colorado, Nebraska, and Tennessee.—fundamental conditions.— proposed trial of Jefferson Davis.—the neutrality acts. —Stockton's claim as a senator.—tributes to public men. —consolidation of the statutes.—excessive labor.— address on Johnson's Policy.—his mother's death.—his marriage.—1865-1866. (search)
notice that if they attempted to pass it I should speak till the close of the session, so that nothing else could be done. It was then abandoned. To R. Schleiden, August 17:— What great events are passing in Europe? I rejoice in the prospect of a united Germany. If I had the honor to be a German, that would be my passion. I trust it will be soon accomplished. I But where are you now I imagine you in some German retreat, which is to you pleasure-house and watch-tower. To F. W. Bird, August 17:— I cannot comprehend those spirits who seek to misrepresent me with Andrew. What do they seek to accomplish? I have known Andrew John A. Andrew, formerly governor of Massachusetts, now retired from office and engaged in the practice of the law. There was a general feeling in the State that he ought to be called again into public life. Some persons without his privity were busy in pitting his name against Sumner. Governor Andrew died in October, 1867. for years, and
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)
public lands. The debate, after going on for five days, was interrupted by the holiday season, and came on again Jan. 8, 1867. Sumner was busy in the mean time in stirring up by letters To Frederick Douglass, G. T. Downing. Gerrit Smith, F. W. Bird, and C. W. Slack. an agitation against the proposed inequality. The same field of controversy was traversed again. The binding force of fundamental conditions after the State's admission was treated at length. Howard thought he had made a gon what we have done to-day with that. The bill passed the next day without dissent from the Republican side. The President did not approve, or return the bill with objections, and it became a law without his action upon it. Sumner wrote to F. W. Bird, Jan. 10, 1867:— I think it best to adopt the amendment; The fourteenth amendment, pending before the Massachusetts Legislature. but since a question has been made as to its character as an offer to the rebel States, I would in a repor
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 56: San Domingo again.—the senator's first speech.—return of the angina pectoris.—Fish's insult in the Motley Papers.— the senator's removal from the foreign relations committee.—pretexts for the remioval.—second speech against the San Domingo scheme.—the treaty of Washington.—Sumner and Wilson against Butler for governor.—1870-1871. (search)
dly conclusion, persuaded him to withhold it from the Senate. Anthony in the Senate, April 28, 1874 (Congressional Globe, p. 3435). Wilson in a letter to Sumner, June 6, 1871, advised against giving the statement publicity. It was, however, put in type and copies were sent by him to certain friends, marked in each case, unpublished, private and confidential,—not to go out of Mr.——'s hands. After his death one of those who had received a copy caused it to be published. It was sent by F. W. Bird to the New York Tribune, in which it appeared April 6, 1874. Works, vol. XIV. pp. 251-276. Sumner showed shortly after his removal his sympathetic adherence to the Republican party in his support of one of its measures for enforcing the fourteenth amendment and the suppression of the Ku-Klux clans. April 13. 1871 (Works, vol. XIV. pp. 277-282). The New York Evening Post, April 19, 1871, took exception to the centralizing drift of this speech. He renewed also the effort to bring <
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)
uel Bowles of the Springfield Republican, Francis W. Bird, Edward Atkinson, David A. Wells, Hiram BEngland in the spring for the purpose. Bowles, Bird, and others thought that an open and distinct d crowd, repelled delegates from his support. Mr. Bird of the Massachusetts delegation was opposed d divided in 1861 on plans of compromise, and Mr. Bird may have supposed that on account of this difmner's handiwork, the draft being received by Mr. Bird at Washington and taken to Cincinnati. The p another candidate. Late in May he wrote to F. W. Bird:— Nor have I ever given a hint to a hut on board the tender,—among whom were Hillard, Bird, E. P. Whipple, G. H. Monroe, Martin Milmore, aon important public questions. He also wrote Mr. Bird a private letter insisting that his wishes munt of the convention of Liberal Republicans. Mr. Bird, as Sumner's confidential friend, only yieldeter the receipt of his letter, withdrawn, and Mr. Bird's substituted in its place. The day after [1 more...]<
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 58: the battle-flag resolution.—the censure by the Massachusetts Legislature.—the return of the angina pectoris. —absence from the senate.—proofs of popular favor.— last meetings with friends and constituents.—the Virginius case.—European friends recalled.—1872-1873. (search)
general remonstrance among his friends to this hazardous test of his strength. Longfellow's Life, vol. III. p. 204. Wendell Phillips was very earnest to arrest his purpose, and intervened to have the debt so placed that it would not be again a matter of thought. Henry L. Pierce was substituted as creditor, and took Sumner's note, which was duly paid. It is not true, as has been stilted, that any gift was made to the senator to relieve him of the necessity of making a lecture tour. F. W. Bird in Boston Herald, March 18, 1877. Yielding to the pressure, he withdrew very regretfully his name from Mr. Redpath's list of engagements for him. He kept aloof from politics, even avoiding the subject in conversation. If he voted at the State election he doubtless voted the Republican ticket, headed by William B. Washburn, candidate for governor, who had been his associate in Congress, and was always friendly to him. It was the year of General Butler's attempt and failure to obtain the Re
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