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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)
sure for compromise. The key to his new departure is most likely to be found in his personal and political intimacy, begun at Washington, with Mr. Seward; and their speeches in the session of 1860-1861 bear intrinsic evidence of a common understanding as to a course of action which was more in harmony with the character of Seward than with that of Adams. Adams, as member of the Corwin committee of Thirty-three, moved two propositions, December 28 and 29, Mr. Adams, in his letter to G. H. Monroe, April 17, 1861, states that the propositions, prepared by others, were handed to him by Corwin, who thought they would have more effect coming from him than from any other member of the committee. It is likely that they were drawn by Seward, who had moved the amendment to the Constitution in the Senate committee of Thirteen.—one a constitutional amendment excluding any amendment of the Constitution concerning slavery unless proposed by a slave State and adopted by all the States; and th
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)
eign war with the greatest naval power in the world. The prospect was dark indeed; and intense anxiety and depression prevailed among our people when the determination of the British government became known by the demand being communicated December 19. Sumner was in Boston when the tidings of the seizure of Mason and Slidell arrived. When others were exulting he said at once, without hesitation, We shall have to give them up; and while dining with friends he repeated this opinion. G. H. Monroe in Hartford Courant, Nov. 22, 1873. As soon as he reached Washington he sought the President and Secretary of State, and was relieved to find that as yet they had taken no position, and were awaiting a communication from the British government. He found the President anxious, notwithstanding the current of opinion in the country in favor of the capture, in which his Cabinet, except Mr. Blair, joined. The President then as always was receptive to what Sumner had to say on foreign affairs
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 57: attempts to reconcile the President and the senator.—ineligibility of the President for a second term.—the Civil-rights Bill.—sale of arms to France.—the liberal Republican party: Horace Greeley its candidate adopted by the Democrats.—Sumner's reserve.—his relations with Republican friends and his colleague.—speech against the President.—support of Greeley.—last journey to Europe.—a meeting with Motley.—a night with John Bright.—the President's re-election.—1871-1872. (search)
nd platform as the promise of a new era, as the tender of an olive branch, which for the sake of the country should be accepted. The third of September was his day of sailing, less than three weeks after his arrival in Massachusetts. Only a few friends knew of his proposed journey. At 11 A. M. he drove with his colored friend J. B. Smith to T. wharf, where a party of friends had gathered to bid him good-by, as he went on board the tender,—among whom were Hillard, Bird, E. P. Whipple, G. H. Monroe, Martin Milmore, and E. L. Pierce. Most of them parted with him at the wharf, but Hillard, Pierce, and one or two others accompanied him to the steamship Malta, then lying below the lower lighthouse. While the tender was on its way, Sumner and Hillard sat for an hour or more together in the pilot-house. The senator seemed to be in good spirits, and his talk was of the improved facilities for at Atlantic voyage, the galleries be intended to visit, the rest from work before him, and the
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)
se who had been on account of that conflict placed in antagonistic positions, and the union of all for the advancement of the common country. He paid a tribute to Massachusetts,—ever dear to him for her leadership in movements for liberty and civilization. His chief topic, however, was the advantages of social intercourse, particularly of conversation as an educating influence. Saturday Evening Gazette, November 22. A gentleman well-known in the history of New England journalism, Mr. George H. Monroe, thus sketched this part of his remarks:— Passing to the consideration of a subject more specifically appropriate to the occasion, Mr. Sumner said he had once dined in company with Daniel Webster on a social occasion, when there were present William H. Prescott, the historian of Spain and her possessions; George Ticknor, who taught the Spaniards the wealth of their own literature; Joseph G. Cogswell, the most eminent bibliographer the country had produced; Francis C. Gray, and m