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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4 2 0 Browse Search
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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)
too little to be justified in pronouncing judgment on her political principles; but you wish to found a republic without religion. In America we should consider such an undertaking chimerical, and doomed to certain defeat. I knew Mr. Sumner on his first visit to this country, after the Brooks assault. We were very quickly bound together by a common weakness,—the love of books. I remember the pleasure he experienced upon finding in my library a book which bore the following title: Voyage De Newport à Philadephie, Albany, etc. A Newport De L'lmprimerie Royale De L'Escadre. This book is now in the Library of Harvard College, with a memorandum in Laboulaye's handwriting. This was the first sketch of the visit to America of the Marquis of Chastellux, brigadier-general in the French army, under the orders of Rochambeau. It was published in France later (about 1870), in two volumes. But what gave this particular volume its value was the fact that it was printed on board the French fle