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C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Section Eighth : the war of the Rebellion . (search)
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., XXXVIII . (search)
XXXVIII.
On the 19th of January, 1862, Senator McDOUGALL, of California, had introduced into the Senate a series of Resolutions concerning the attempt to subject the Republic of Mexico to French authority, in which the following peremptory cla withdrawn from the territories of Mexico, and on the 3d of February, when the Resolutions came up for consideration, Mr. McDOUGALL made an elaborate speech, in which he doubtless expressed the prevailing sentiment of the Senate, and of the country, affairs of nations, sometimes those things that are right in themselves, are altogether wrong, all things considered. Mr. McDOUGALL did not make this distinction.
But statesmanship could not afford to overlook it. In speaking on this subject, Mr. L pared to shoulder fresh troubles, having all we could carry, of our own.
So thought Mr. Sumner, who, in reply to Senator McDougall, said:
Mr. President,—At the present moment there is one touchstone to which I am disposed to bring every quest