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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)
Hotel Walther, Rue Castiglione. Here, where he remained a month, enjoying various diversions and afar from home politics, he seemed to gain strength. To his great regret he missed Dr. Brown-Sequard, who had suddenly gone to the United States to take up his residence there. He rigidly abstained from the slightest glance at American newspapers. He found American friends in Paris, who gave him a hearty welcome, Elliot C. Cowdin, 1819-1880. A. H. Bullock, Mr. Seligman, Samuel Johnson, J. Watson Webb, James Phalen, and G. W. Smalley. Mr. Cowdin, then representing his New York house in Paris, who had been his friend from early days in Boston, was most kind, giving Sumner the freedom of his bureau for the packing and transporting of his books and works of art. He had always a seat for the senator at his family table in 152 Avenue des Champs Elysees, and brought together to meet him at a dinner distinguished guests,— among whom were Edouard Laboulaye, A. Laugel, A. H. Bullock, Mr. Waite
The Daily Dispatch: February 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], The National crisis. (search)
of South Carolina, to obey her Governor and other officers set over them, and to defend the State against its enemies. They were recruits, enlisted in the service of the newly independent State.--Memphis Appeal, 16th inst. When President Jefferson Davis passed through Jackson, Miss., on his way to Montgomery, Ala., for inauguration, the old and tattered flag of the Mississippi Rifles, which waved over the "well fought on field" of Buena Vista, was borne in the procession. The Augusta (Geo.) Dispatch says: "The negroes employed in grading the Macon and Warrenton Railroad, near Warrenton, have hoisted secession flags on their dirt carts, bearing eight well executed stars. On being asked why they added the eighth star, the reply was, 'Old Wirginny's bound to come.'" Col. H. S. Webb, distinguished for his services in the Mexican war, and brother to J. Watson Webb of New York, is in New Orleans, to offer the services of himself and four sons to the Southern army.
The Daily Dispatch: March 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], Monuay, March 18th, 1861. (search)
s of the Confederate States. It would be a bold act, but one of a patriot and statesman, which all good men will applaud and justify, and will be heralded from one end of the country to the other as the truest policy to secure peace.--If the President does this, opinions will be various; some may brand him as false and faltering, but the majority will declare him a patriot, who refused to bring on the country the calamities of civil war. The said border States would have their rights, or Kentucky would turn her face towards her Southern sisters. Mr. Bright presented a joint resolution of the Indiana Legislature, praying Congress to call a National Convention. The Senate then went into Executive session, during which Charles Francis Adams, of Massachusetts, was nominated Minister to England; Mr. Dayton, of New Jersey, Minister to France; Mr. Marsh, of Vermont, Minister to Sardinia; J. Watson Webb, of New York, Minister to Turkey. The nomination of Mr. Dayton was confirmed.
The Daily Dispatch: September 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 5 (search)
ver, in rippling none of my ideas, as neither my cranium nor its enclosure sustained any serious damage. My ideas, in a few days, will flow as freshly as ever, as Webb will and to his cost. Mr. Bennett occupies nearly a column of the Herald with his own account of the fracas, every particular of which is accurately narratethe implication is that the journalist was well remunerated for his broken head. The assault, it appears, was provoked by a paragraph in the Herald, which charged Webb with lending the editorial assistance of his paper (the Courier and Enquirer,) to the operations of certain stock-jobbers in Wall street. In three months after the above affray, the untiring Bennett gave occasion to the heroic Webb for another display of his prowess. --Wall street was again the theatre of the warlike exhibition, and very nearly the same spot where the same persons encountered each other before. In the Herald, of May 10th, Mr. Bennett thus describes the affray: "
The Daily Dispatch: January 9, 1863., [Electronic resource], A foreign Minister Challenged. (search)
A foreign Minister Challenged. --It is stated that Mr. J. Watson Webb, the American Minister at Rio, recently sent a challenge to the English Minister at that place, in consequence of some hard words that passed between them at a private party. The English Minister, as soon as he received the challenge, went on board the British storeship for protection, and there remained at last accounts.