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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)
dmission of New Mexico without the prohibition of slavery. R. H. Dana, Jr., in speeches at Manchester, N. H. (February 19), and Cambridge, Mass. (February 11), took substantially Adams's view. Boston Advertiser, February 20; Adams's Biography of Dana, vol. II. pp. 252, 253. Governor Andrew is also understood to have communicated to Mr. Adams his approval of the latter's course at this time; but the antislavery men of Massachusetts were as a body against compromise. He used no persuasions withears 1870-1873, and probably met at its monthly dinners; but it is not remembered that they conversed together at these reunion. Both were with the club April 27, 1861, and Oct. 27, 1873. Longfellow's Life, vol. II. p. 365; Adams's Biography of Dana, vol. II. p. 360. Adams's letter, March 13, 1874, to a Faneuil Hall meeting, contains an appreciative estimate of Sumner. If Adams had been the candidate in 1872 against General Grant, he would have been supported by Sumner with entire cordiality
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)
of events and the development of opinion among war Democrats; R. H. Dana, Jr., signified his dissent (Adams's Biography of Dana, vol. II. pp. 259, 260; Boston Advertiser, October 26); and even Governor Andrew regarded both Sumner's and Dr. Clarke's b Cushing, C. G. Loring, George Sumner, Joel Parker, B. F. Thomas, G. T. Bigelow, R. H. Dana, Jr., Adams's Biography of Dana, vol. II. p. 259. and the editors of that conservative journal, the Boston Advertiser. It was, indeed, a perilous momisters at Washington commended Sumner for his tact, and regarded the speech as forming a chapter in the law of nations. Mr. Dana thought the speech the best thing for Sumner's popularity and reputation he had done, though not wholly approving his argument. Adams's Biography of Dana, vol. II. pp. 261-263. His position as the authority on foreign affairs was from this time firmly fixed in the Senate, until his controversy with President Grant nine years later. One of the senators—Mr. Morrill o
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 47: third election to the Senate. (search)
was the freedom of the slaves. Letters of Mr. Dana to Sumner in manuscript, June 4 and Sept. 13, 1862; Adams's Biography of Dana, vol. II. pp. 259, 263. Sumner's relations with him and his family pleasure in promoting. Adams's Biography of Dana, vol. II. pp. 257. Dana expressed surprise thaDana expressed surprise that Sumner was for some time less cordial than before; but he could hardly have expected a different rr against the senator. (Ibid., p.265.) Indeed, Dana, if the positions had been reversed, would haveerwards had no sincerer friend and admirer than Dana. Ibid., vol. II. pp. 339. 340, 361, 363. These relations hampered Mr. Dana, and he withheld from the convention the real grounds of his oppositiomotion for a committee on resolutions was made, Dana, fearing the composition of such a committee, ma trenchant speech, in which he handled roughly Dana and others co-operating with him. Mr. Griffin nn was chairman and Dana a member. In committee Dana opposed without success the contested resolutio[1 more...]
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)
in the contention. The Confederates alleged, in justification of their habitual destruction of captured vessels, the stringent blockade of their ports; but the validity of this excuse has not been passed upon judicially or settled by diplomacy. Dana's Wheaton, p. 487, note. Such cruisers, all built, rigged, armed, and manned in Great Britain, availing themselves of British ports as their naval base of operations and supplies, . . . never touching a port of the pretended government, were only day, the 26th of December. whose membership included Emerson, Longfellow, Agassiz, Lowell, Benjamin Peirce, Motley, Whipple, Judge Hoar, Felton, Dr. Holmes, R. H. Dana, J. M. Forbes, and others. This club is commemorated in Adams's Biography of Dana, vol. II. pp. 162-170, 360. 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
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)
New York World, Feb. 28, 1865; New York Herald, March 1; Springfield Republican, March 1. R. H. Dana. Jr., passed a severe judgment on Sumner's bearing and positions in the contest; but he was not at the time in accord with Republican ideas of emancipation and reconstruction (being even opposed to Lincoln's proclamation), to which, however, he came a few months later; and he was not then, as at an earlier or later period, in political and personal sympathy with Sumner. Adams's Biography of Dana, vol. II. pp. 263, 276, 330-335. Sumner was strong in his language, but not stronger than his opponent Trumbull, or his supporters Howard and Wade. He stood alike for reconstruction by the people through Congress, and for the complete citizenship of a race; and on this last ground he stood alone. His resistance rallied the antislavery masses to his advanced position, to which after agitation and contention the people were yet to come. For weal or woe, whether it was well or not for the b
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)
od,— or more ready to make new acquaintances. He enjoyed the monthly dinners of the Saturday Club, where were Longfellow, Agassiz, Emerson, Holmes, J. M. Forbes, Dana, Judge Hoar, and others of like spirit. He was present, October 28, when the elder Dana was received with honor. Adams's Life of Dana, vol. II. p. 360. He wasDana, vol. II. p. 360. He was with the Radical Club at Mrs. John T. Sargent's, where, in the midst of a sympathetic circle, which included Wendell Phillips, James Freeman Clarke, and T. W. Higginson, he listened to John Weiss's paper on Portia. He was twice on the platform at the Music Hall when Mr. Bradlaugh, M. P., was the lecturer (Wendell Phillips in thememories of friendly and sympathetic intercourse with the historian. Among the guests were the young Lord Roseberry, and Longfellow and his daughter, afterwards Mrs. Dana. His letters show how he kept English friends and affairs in mind. To Lady Hatherton he wrote, April 3:— I was glad that you remembered me, although yo
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)
ed by the consideration that all my life I have been a user of books; and having few of my own, I have relied on the libraries of friends and on public libraries; so that what I now do is only a return for what I have freely received. Two of Sumner's literary executors, Messrs. Balch and Pierce, requested their other associate, Mr. Longfellow, to write the senator's life, but failing physical power compelled him to decline. The three then united in inviting successively Motley, Whittier, Dana, and Curtis to be the biographer; but the three former declined on account of inadequate health, and the fourth on account of the pressure of other work already in hand. Finally, at the request of Mr. Longfellow and Mr. Balch, their other associate undertook the duty which he had desired to have fall to better hands. He confesses, in these final words, his debt of gratitude to many who have aided him in his task; but most of all to the late George William Curtis, scholar, gentleman, and pat