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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)
ton, April 7, 1868; Globe, pp. 2260-2267. but his fourth effort at the beginning of President Grant's administration was successful. This is an illustration of his pertinacity. Sumner carried through at this time a resolution of sympathy with Crete in her struggle against Turkey, July 19, 1867; Works, vol. XI. pp. 426. Later he carried other resolutions of sympathy with Crete. July 21, 1868; Works, vol. XI. pp. 427, 428. another denouncing the Coolie trade, Jan. 16. 1867; Works, voCrete. July 21, 1868; Works, vol. XI. pp. 427, 428. another denouncing the Coolie trade, Jan. 16. 1867; Works, vol. XI. p. 82. and another prohibiting persons in our diplomatic service from wearing a uniform or official costume. March 20, 1867; Works, vol. XI. pp. 164-167. Other subjects in which Sumner took an interest were the reconstruction of the levees of the Mississippi, which he thought should be postponed until the restoration to the Union of the States in which they were situated, March 29, 1867 (Works, vol. XI. pp. 178-180); cenotaphs in the Congressional burialground for senators dying in
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, chapter 10 (search)
rojects,—March 2 and 3, 1669 (Globe, pp. 1819, 1828, 1864). the maintenance of mixed courts in Africa for the suppression of the slave-trade under the treaty with Great Britain, and the payment of salaries to the judges. Feb. 1, 2, and 3 (Congressional Globe, pp. 765-767, 783-786, 818). The New York World, with reference to this debate, referred, February 5, to his dictatorship in the Senate. He wrote to Dr. Howe, Jan. 1869:— It is difficult to understand the precise position of Crete. Can the late telegraphic news be true? I suspect it as an invention of the Turk. I regret that there is no good sympathetic Russian minister here with whom I could confer. Stoeckl has gone home; and even he was little better than an old Democrat, with a Massachusetts wife steeped in Webster whiggery; so, we fight our great battle generally with little support or sympathy. To Mr. Bright, January 17:— Of course I read carefully all that you say, whether to the public, or better <