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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4 6 0 Browse Search
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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 49: letters to Europe.—test oath in the senate.—final repeal of the fugitive-slave act.—abolition of the coastwise slave-trade.—Freedmen's Bureau.—equal rights of the colored people as witnesses and passengers.—equal pay of colored troops.—first struggle for suffrage of the colored people.—thirteenth amendment of the constitution.— French spoliation claims.—taxation of national banks.— differences with Fessenden.—Civil service Reform.—Lincoln's re-election.—parting with friends.—1863-1864. (search)
a committee to request the Republican national committee to postpone the convention. Nicolay and Hay's Life of Lincoln, vol. IX. pp. 57, 58. and the New York Independent. June 2. The same paper, June 16, gives its support to the nomination, but without enthusiasm. The effort for another nomination did not end with the convention. Naturally B. F. Wade, senator, and Henry Winter Davis, representative, were earnest in it; but a large number of public men were in sympathy with them. Senator Grimes held their view of Mr. Lincoln's limitations. Gurowski's diary, vol. III. p. 358, where an extract from his letter is given. This is corroborated by his letter written after Mr. Lincoln's death. J. W. Grimes's Life, p. 279. Governor Andrew of Massachusetts, foremost among war governors, who had occasion to seek Mr. Lincoln from time to time on public business, was very active in the movement to displace him. P. W. Chandler's Memoir and Reminiscences of Governor Andrew, pp. 111-1
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)
ties clashed, but having full faith in his fidelity and honor, was no loner there. Had Fessenden lived, the removal of Stunner would not have been carried,—indeed, would not have been attempted. Fessenden's most intimate friend in the Senate (Grimes of Iowa) wrote from Switzerland to F. A. Pike, Jan. 10, 1871: Was there ever anything so absurd, so wicked indeed, as the attempt to force the country to accept San Domingo against its will? I have no great admiration for Sumner, but I glory in his pluck, and I wish I were able to be in Washington to fight by his side. （Salter's Life of J. W. Grimes, pp. 382, 383.) Mr. Grimes died in February, 1872; but he signified by a letter, afterwards published, his opposition to the President's re-election. Another public man, though while in office altogether unfriendly to Sumner, condemned the removal. Hugh McCulloch's Men and Measures of Half a Century, p. 353. Cameron, who succeeded Sumner, was by general opinion unfitted for the dutie
The Daily Dispatch: November 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], Unionism in the South. (search)
, give assurance that of late the rebels have not been kept posted as to the purposes of the Government, and are at great loss to know what Gen. McClellan intends to do, and at what point the blow is to be struck that they are sure will fall upon them soon. The investigation Concerning the destruction of the Norfolk and Pensacola Navy-yards and the Harper's Ferry Arsenal. The committee appointed at the last session of Congress — composed of Senators John P. Hale, of New Hampshire; J. W. Grimes, of Iowa, and Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee--to inquire into the facts connected with the destruction of the Norfolk and Pensacola Navy-Yards and Harper's Ferry Arsenal, assembled to-day at the Senate Committee room on naval affairs. Only two of the committee were present, Mr. Johnson not having reached the city. Commodores McCauley, Paulding, and Pendergrast, and Paymaster Bradford, appeared before them as witnesses, and will give their testimony to-morrow. The committee are determined