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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 46: qualities and habits as a senator.—1862. (search)
hat honor, either in the Senate or House of Representatives, it has not been my good fortune to know one who has been as prompt and kindly attentive to the applications of his constituents as yourself. One great secret of his power, as was remarked by a shrewd critic of public men, was his intense personality, his great and overmastering qualities, which brought him at times into collision with other senators, but which nevertheless made him one of the powers and estates of the country. Warrington's (W. S. Robinson) Pen Portraits, pp. 517-520. This writer said: It would be difficult to name a man,—and this is the universal testimony of those who have been to Washington on business, and have asked Mr. Sumner's aid,—it would be difficult, if not impossible, to find a man so industrious, methodical, thorough, energetic, and successful in attending to pure matters of business. This is the simple fact, and no exaggeration whatever. His great practical talent excels that of almost every
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)
front across the hall. He seemed to take little interest in the audience before him, being in this respect quite unlike Mr. Everett, who to the last was intent on oratorical effect. As observed in a previous chapter, he had for some years cared chiefly in speaking to reach through the press the American people, and had become to a degree indifferent to the impression on his hearers. This change had been noted two years before by an acute observer of public speakers. W. S. Robinson's (Warrington's) Pen Portraits, pp. 517, 518. Mrs. Lincoln wrote from the neighborhood of Chicago, whither she had gone, a letter of gratitude for the truthful and eloquent eulogy on her lamented husband by a friend so cherished as you were by the great and good man who has been called away. Your words as testimonials in his praise are very welcomely received. Robert T. Lincoln wrote, July 5:— I desire to assure you that I have been deeply gratified by your oration. I have seen no eulogy
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, chapter 10 (search)
f him: I never knew him in a mixed company to introduce any topic that might prove disagreeable to any one present; and when by inadvertence or otherwise such a topic was introduced by others, he was always one of the first to divert the conversation to some other subject. Thurman of Ohio, in the Senate, April 27, 1874. Congressional Globe, p. 3400. Though not a humorist himself, he enjoyed humor as it flowed from others, and often greeted it with a ringing laugh. W. S. Robinson's (Warrington's) Pen Portraits, p. 519. A. B. Muzzey's Reminiscences and Memorials, p. 225. E. P. Whipple's Recollections, Harper's Magazine, July, 1879, pp. 279-280. His ordinary hours for meals were 8.30 A. M. for breakfast and 5.30 P. M. for dinner, and he took food only at these meals. At first he had a housekeeper: but this arrangement not working satisfactorily, he carried on the house afterwards only with servants, aided in daily needs as well as emergencies by Mr. Wormley. He seldom dined
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)
this although the first paper for which Sumner subscribed was the Liberator, and the first time when he appeared in politics was at the age of thirty-four in an Antislavery meeting in company with Garrison himself. Ante, vol. III. pp. 103, 104. One observer attributed Mr. Garrison's intemperate criticisms of the senator to a feeling of rivalry as to what shall be the verdict of history, and what is the estimation of contemporaries as to the historic figures in the Antislavery conflict. （Warrington's—W. S. Robinson's—Pen Portraits, pp. 366, 367.) The Springfield Republican, March 10, 1873, ascribed Mr. Garrison's comments on Sumner at this time, as well as his later action concerning the senator, to an unreasonable and unnecessary and very unfortunate jealousy. Of a different temper was Sumner in dealing with old coadjutors. He thus wrote to Whittier:— I have not read Mr. Garrison's letter. Some one said it was unkind, and I made up my mind at once not'to read it,—of cours