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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 54: President Grant's cabinet.—A. T. Stewart's disability.—Mr. Fish, Secretary of State.—Motley, minister to England.—the Alabama claims.—the Johnson-Clarendon convention.— the senator's speech: its reception in this country and in England.—the British proclamation of belligerency.— national claims.—instructions to Motley.—consultations with Fish.—political address in the autumn.— lecture on caste.—1869. (search)
history, and he was out of sympathy with the spirit of the time. Nothing but the accident of personal association with General Grant and their relation as host and guest during the latter's visits or residence in New York brought him again into public life. Sumner and Fish entered the Senate together in December, 1851, and though the latter had no sympathy with the former's antislavery views, their relations became most cordial and intimate. When Mr. Fish was assailed publicly by Moses Grinnell and the merchants of New York city, on account of his bill concerning emigrant passengers (Congressional Globe, Feb. 20, 1855, p. 825), he received Sumner's sympathies, which he gratefully acknowledged in a letter from Havana, March 11, 1855, saying: Thanks, my good friend, for your kind letter. Like a drop of water in a dry desert is a kind word in a moment of pain. There was no friend's house in Washington where Sumner ever enjoyed so much as at Mr. Fish's, and no one was for many ye