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Charles Congdon, Tribune Essays: Leading Articles Contributing to the New York Tribune from 1857 to 1863. (ed. Horace Greeley) 82 4 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 62 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2 44 0 Browse Search
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2 25 1 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 16 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 14 0 Browse Search
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1 14 2 Browse Search
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler 13 3 Browse Search
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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)
10, 1889. It contained the testimonies of the only surviving members of the committee-Cameron, Patterson, and Harlan—to Sumner's fair and honorable dealing with the business, and to the universal conviction that the purchase would be a bad investment. Harlan answered the inquiry as to Sumner's acting fairly in the transaction thus: None who ever knew Mr. Sumner could have any doubt on that point; he was the soul of candor and frankness. See Appendix. Sir Frederick Bruce, 1814-1867. Mr. Choate said of him when he was one of Lord Ashburton's suite in 1841, referring to his attractive person, He is the Corinthian part of the British legation. the successor of Lord Lyons as British minister at washington, was of a family with whom Sumner had long maintained cordial relations. He was the brother of the Earl of Elgin, former governor-general of Canada, and of Lady Augusta, wife of Dean Stanley. Sumner had also been kindly received in Paris in 1858-1859 by their mother, the Dowager
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 55: Fessenden's death.—the public debt.—reduction of postage.— Mrs. Lincoln's pension.—end of reconstruction.—race discriminations in naturalization.—the Chinese.—the senator's record.—the Cuban Civil War.—annexation of San Domingo.—the treaties.—their use of the navy.—interview with the presedent.—opposition to the annexation; its defeat.—Mr. Fish.—removal of Motley.—lecture on Franco-Prussian War.—1869-1870. (search)
erge from his oracular and profane mysteries, and meet the precise questions. April 5. Congressional Globe, pp. 2425. 2426. He chafed under the charge made by Morton and Yates in the earlier debate on Mississippi as well as now by Sumner, that he was maintaining State rights in the Calhoun sense. Feb. 14, 1870. Congressional Globe, pp. 1257, 1258. He was very impatient with Sumner's habit of referring to the Declaration of Independence as a source of power; and after the manner of Rufus Choate, whose pupil he had been, he spoke of the generalities of that revolutionary pronunciamento. April 5. 1870; Congressional Globe, p. 2425. Carpenter was not satisfied with his own phrase, and in a later contention with Sumner withdrew it, saying it was an unfortunate expression, and uttered in the heat of an extempore debate (Feb. 1, 1872, Globe, p. 760). Sumner replied a few days later, April 18. Congressional Globe, pp. 2747-2749. and a running debate April 18. Congressional G