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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)
h, as its first act, after verifying the titles of members to their seats, passed unanimously, and without even a reference, a joint resolution approving Captain Wilkes's brave, adroit, and patriotic conduct; and though there was not wanting a distrust in some quarters of the expediency or legality of Captain Wilkes's act, public opinion, as expressed by the press and even by publicists, very generally applauded it. Among those who in Massachusetts gave it sanction were Edward Everett, Theophilus Parsons, Caleb Cushing, C. G. Loring, George Sumner, Joel Parker, B. F. Thomas, G. T. Bigelow, R. H. Dana, Jr., Adams's Biography of Dana, vol. II. p. 259. and the editors of that conservative journal, the Boston Advertiser. It was, indeed, a perilous moment, perhaps the most perilous, in our Civil War. Public opinion in Great Britain had been running strongly against us, and a large party in that country was watching for a pretext to push intervention in favor of the rebellion. Three
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 48: Seward.—emancipation.—peace with France.—letters of marque and reprisal.—foreign mediation.—action on certain military appointments.—personal relations with foreigners at Washington.—letters to Bright, Cobden, and the Duchess of Argyll.—English opinion on the Civil War.—Earl Russell and Gladstone.—foreign relations.—1862-1863. (search)
rned, but of unbridled speech, almost a madman when in passion,— the terrible count, as Longfellow called him. He appeared in Cambridge in 1850, where his learning and liberal sentiments commanded the friendly interest of Longfellow, Felton, and Parsons. The last named procured for him the opportunity, when his English was still very broken, to deliver in the Harvard Law School some lectures on the civil law, which few attended and none understood. The writer, then a law student, was one of,— so a friend writes, who dined with him at Walmer Castle. Lord Brougham deplores my delusion. Among Sumner's correspondents in this country who wrote to him concerning questions with England were the well-known lawyers and publicists, Theophilus Parsons, Charles G. Loring, and George Bemis,—all of whom were in general accord with his views, and took part in the public discussion. Of these, Mr. Bemis, who replied to Historicus (Sir William V. Harcourt), was the most active and the best re<
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)
on the seizure of the Florida, a Confederate war vessel, in the neutral waters of Brazil, by the United States steamer Wachusett. While not justifying the seizure, they were a reply in the nature of an argumentum ad hominem to British criticisms of the transaction, with a treatment of precedents similar to that which he had applied to the Trent case. Boston Advertiser, Nov. 29, 1864, Jan. 17, 1865; Works, vol. IX. pp. 141-173. Other writers who took his view in the discussion were Theophilus Parsons, George Bemis, and C. F. Dunbar; but on the other side were Goldwin Smith and Prof. Henry W. Torrey, —the latter writing with the signature of Privatus. Cobden, in the last letter but one which he wrote to Sumner, objected to his use of England's old doings as an excuse for your present shortcomings; and thought the vessel should have been promptly returned to Brazil. （Morley's Life of Cobden, vol. II. pp. 459, 460.) The vessel went to the bottom in Hampton Roads shortly after in a
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 50: last months of the Civil War.—Chase and Taney, chief-justices.—the first colored attorney in the supreme court —reciprocity with Canada.—the New Jersey monopoly.— retaliation in war.—reconstruction.—debate on Louisiana.—Lincoln and Sumner.—visit to Richmond.—the president's death by assassination.—Sumner's eulogy upon him. —President Johnson; his method of reconstruction.—Sumner's protests against race distinctions.—death of friends. —French visitors and correspondents.—1864-1865. (search)
what Mr. Canning would call cantanker. He rushed too swiftly to his conclusion; Reply of Goldwin Smith in Boston Advertiser, January 26, to his critics—Theophilus Parsons and George Bemis. but I hope that we shall not lose his powerful support for the good cause. I have felt it my duty to say to the British charge; here thatand Louisiana, was distributed among the people. In Boston there was a quick response in a meeting held June 21, 1865, to maintain equal suffrage, at which Theophilus Parsons was in the chair, and Richard H. Dana, Jr., made the principal speech. Mr. Dana, who had been Sumner's critic, now came substantially to his position. Aim. Letter to Sumner, November 21. At the Union Club in Boston, November 7, the Governor and Henry Ward Beecher had a spirited encounter with Sumner when Governor Parsons of Alabama was present to solicit a loan for that State. (Boston Commonwealth, November 25.) Governor Andrew, as his valedictory message in January, 1866, sh