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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)
n separation, and that France was ready at any time to offer her good offices to bring about peace. When he said this I snapped my fingers. But does not this explain the precise policy of the emperor? To Lieber, December 28:— Your German sky lowers with war. Can it be avoided? My letters assure me that Germany at last is a unit, and that it will stand by Schleswig-Holstein. Schleiden, who is very intelligent, is openly for war. He says that the connection of the provinces with Denmark must be cut. This is war. Motley writes from Vienna that in his opinion war is inevitable. Mercier leaves Washington to-day. Inter nos, he will tell the emperor that the Mexican expedition is a mistake, and that he ought to withdraw it; but that the national cause here is hopeless, and that the war will end in separation! This I have from his own lips. To W. E. Gladstone, Jan. 1, 1864:— I begin the year with my acknowledgments of the kindness of your letter, and with my best wi
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 52: Tenure-of-office act.—equal suffrage in the District of Columbia, in new states, in territories, and in reconstructed states.—schools and homesteads for the Freedmen.—purchase of Alaska and of St. Thomas.—death of Sir Frederick Bruce.—Sumner on Fessenden and Edmunds.—the prophetic voices.—lecture tour in the West.—are we a nation?—1866-1867. (search)
l of the United States. He sought to annex the Sandwich Islands. Seward's Life, vol. III. p. 372.— a negotiation with Denmark for the purchase of St. Thomas at the price of $7,500,000, which was submitted to the Senate in December, 1867, though nystem of insular and extra-continental acquisitions, contrary hitherto to the policy of our government. The ministry of Denmark was anxious to dispose of what was valueless to that country for a sum of money which was sorely needed by its empty trelly conducted by one of their number, General Raasloff, who having been at one time consul-general in New York, and later Danish minister at washington, came to the country at this time to press the treaty, and remained in Washington during the wintedence in his kindly sentiments, by soliciting his friendly intervention in the embarrassed relations between Prussia and Denmark. The treaty then slept a long sleep, from which it has never waked. The unhappy negotiator, Raasloff, went out of offi
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)
against which Sumner's argument was to beat in vain. Sumner's speech was a philippic of the classic type, such as had been pronounced against Antony and Verres and Hastings. Modern life furnishes few occasions for such efforts,—perhaps none. His was pitched in too high a key. The President had foibles, and had in notable instances disregarded the limitations and legalities of his office. He had given relatives places in the public service,—among them a brother-in-law made minister to Denmark; Cramer, whom the foreign relations committee were indisposed to approve on account of unfitness. New York Herald, Feb. 3 and 6, 1871. and others, a dozen or so, of kin to him, whose appointments were mostly of humble grade,—conventional improprieties which Washington and Jefferson would have avoided. He had taken large gifts which circumspect statesmen are accustomed to refuse, but which after the Civil War other officers (Farragut, Sherman, and Sheridan) accepted from a grateful peop<
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, chapter 18 (search)
h undertakes to narrate the negotiations with Denmark for the purchase of the islands of St. Thomastry in the position of acting in bad faith to Denmark. This contention has no basis in fact or pol price was $7,200,000; while the bargain with Denmark called for $7,500,000 for a meagre area of ont hindrance from any one, the constitution of Denmark contained a limitation analogous to that of ot appear to have affected the convention with Denmark. One thing is certain,—that the senator at ne and leaving no successor; the insistence of Denmark after the price had been fixed on a vote of tesort to such an unnatural explanation. The Danish negotiator, in his letters to Mr. Sumner and iis judgment in suspense. He had a regard for Denmark as a nation, and a particular friendship for ed, at the urgent request of De Bille, the new Danish minister, to ask for another extension of time if possible, to save the liberal ministry of Denmark, which had been drawn into that measure, agai[2 more...]