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Mexico (Mexico, Mexico) (search for this): chapter 19
hile chairman of the committee on foreign relations, it was a fact, susceptible of proof from the Senate records, that drafts of treaties [meaning treaties], from eight to eleven in number, remained in the hands of the committee for several months, some of them, as near as Mr. Fish could remember, for more than two years. In reply to a written request for a list of the treaties referred to, he answered by letter, October 29, printed in the Boston Transcript, enumerating nine, —one each with Mexico, Colombia, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Austria, Salvador, and Great Britain, and two with Peru,—as transmitted to the Senate for its action, and referred by that body to the committee on foreign relations, while Mr. Sumner was its chairman, and which remained unacted upon at the time when he ceased to be such chairman; and later in the same letter he referred to the nine treaties as having failed to receive the consideration of the committee at the time when Mr. Sumner's appointment as its chairm
Peru, Mass. (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 19
ritten request for a list of the treaties referred to, he answered by letter, October 29, printed in the Boston Transcript, enumerating nine, —one each with Mexico, Colombia, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Austria, Salvador, and Great Britain, and two with Peru,—as transmitted to the Senate for its action, and referred by that body to the committee on foreign relations, while Mr. Sumner was its chairman, and which remained unacted upon at the time when he ceased to be such chairman; and later in the sametrue. Mr. Sumner's chairmanship ended March 3, 1871. It was found that he reported the Mexican protocol (referred Dec. 8, 1869) on Jan. 11, 1870; the Darien Canal treaty with Colombia (referred April 1, 1870), on July 13, 1870; two treaties with Peru, and one each with Guatemala and Nicaragua (all four referred Dec. 8, 1870), on Jan. 12, 1871; one with Salvador (referred January, 1871), on March 1, 1871; one with Great Britain (referred Feb. 28, 1871), on March 1, 1871; leaving only the Austro
Salvador (Utah, United States) (search for this): chapter 19
ferred to, he answered by letter, October 29, printed in the Boston Transcript, enumerating nine, —one each with Mexico, Colombia, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Austria, Salvador, and Great Britain, and two with Peru,—as transmitted to the Senate for its action, and referred by that body to the committee on foreign relations, while Mr. Su April 1, 1870), on July 13, 1870; two treaties with Peru, and one each with Guatemala and Nicaragua (all four referred Dec. 8, 1870), on Jan. 12, 1871; one with Salvador (referred January, 1871), on March 1, 1871; one with Great Britain (referred Feb. 28, 1871), on March 1, 1871; leaving only the Austro-Hungary treaty (referred Dabout a month, and that month a broken one, which included the holiday recess; and a sixth was reported the very next day after it was received. The treaty with Salvador was with the committee seven weeks, the last fortnight of which Mr. Sumner was prostrated with a severe illness which kept him from the Senate. The Darien Canal
Scotland (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 19
hat Mr. Sumner did not report six or seven treaties; nor by Mr. Howe, Mr. Hamlin, Mr. Cameron, and Mr. Anthony, when they explained in the Senate the cause of the removal, April 28, 1874; nor by General Grant, in his interviews in 1877– 1878, in Scotland or in Egypt; nor by Mr. Fish, in his five appearances before the public in October, November, and December, 1877. But it is, for the first time, made by Mr. Davis, Jan. 3, 1878, nearly seven years after Mr. Sumner's removal, and almost four yeanator. But General Grant, in all his justifications of Mr. Sumner's removal, puts forth two only,—the pigeon-holing and the non-speaking ones, as in his conversation with Mr. Curtis in the summer of 1871 at Long Branch, and in his interviews in Scotland in September, 1877, and at Cairo in January, 1878, without ever making the remotest allusion to the reason which Mr. Davis now resorts to when the others have failed. Again, and finally, as showing that no views of Mr. Sumner about Canada eve
Massachusetts (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 19
a fortunate suggestion that the Senate records should be searched and made known, this calumny might have remained forever attached to an eminent senator. Mr. Fish's letter to the Boston Transcript adroitly gave only dates of references to the committee: and the omission of dates of reporting suggested to Mr. Sumner's friends a further inquiry as to the omitted dates. On November 21 the injunction of secrecy was removed from the Senate proceedings, on the motion of Senator Hoar of Massachusetts, and Mr. Fish's repeated charge found to be untrue. Mr. Sumner's chairmanship ended March 3, 1871. It was found that he reported the Mexican protocol (referred Dec. 8, 1869) on Jan. 11, 1870; the Darien Canal treaty with Colombia (referred April 1, 1870), on July 13, 1870; two treaties with Peru, and one each with Guatemala and Nicaragua (all four referred Dec. 8, 1870), on Jan. 12, 1871; one with Salvador (referred January, 1871), on March 1, 1871; one with Great Britain (referred Feb
Michigan (Michigan, United States) (search for this): chapter 19
nd ever made in Congress, and who then proposed to obtain by negotiation a surrender of all the British possessions in North America as the basis for a settlement of our claims, and who in the same speech recited the offensive propositions he had from time to time made, such as the withdrawal of our minister from the court of St. James, the repeal of the neutrality laws, the declaration of our neutrality between England and Abyssinia, and who said that the sixty thousand veteran soldiers of Michigan will take the contract to take possession of the Canadas in thirty days. Indeed, Mr. Chandler, who proposed to seize Canada by force, voting to remove Mr. Sumner for desiring only a peaceful acquisition, with full consent of England and of Canada also, would be an interesting spectacle! Surely, he was not, one of the leading senators! Nor could there have been among then, for reasons already given, Messrs. Conkling, Howe, Hamlin, Cameron, or Anthony. Who, then, were the nameless, undesi
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 19
Appendix II: a senator's fidelity vindicated. this paper was printed in the North American Review, July-August, 1878. its points are given briefly ante, vol. IV. pp. 478-481. The defeated attempt to annex San Domingo to the United States, the recall of Mr. Motley from the mission to England, the removal of Mr. Sumner from the head of the committee on foreign relations, on which he had long served, the rupture of friendly intercourse subsisting between him and Mr. Fish, are likely, bosh had appeared by letter in the Herald, his charge against Mr. Sumner was shown to be untrue by the solemn record of the Senate. What, then, was his duty? He had made the charge to Ex-President Grant, who was spreading it in Europe and the United States. He had repeated it by letters and interviews. He had made it, not against a, living rival, but against a dead senator, one with whom he had often held sweet counsel. The code of honor, the Christian canons, the instincts of human nature,
Alaska (Alaska, United States) (search for this): chapter 19
Canada this fact alone is sufficient, that he supported in the Senate the Treaty of Washington; and while he criticised some omissions, and moved certain amendments, and spoke at length upon its various provisions, he made no complaint that it did not provide for the cession of Canada, and indeed made no reference to the matter whatever. This was not the first occasion on which Mr. Sumner had shown his desire for the acquisition of British America, as he had already supported that of Russian America. Always, however, he insisted that it should be made by peaceful annexation, by the voluntary act of England, and with the cordial assent of the colonists. This view appears in his speech at the Republican State convention at Worcester, Sept. 22, 1869, where here called the aspirations of our fathers for the union of all Englishmen in America, and their invitation to Canada to join our new nation at its birth; suggested that reciprocity of trade was prophetic of political unity, and p
Canada (Canada) (search for this): chapter 19
cretary of State concerning the acquisition of Canada, as forming part of those reasons. The recordate. His views relative to the acquisition of Canada, whatever they may have been at the time of hid that the withdrawal of the British flag from Canada cannot be abandoned as a condition or preliminf Mr. Sumner in relation to the acquisition of Canada was in the mind of any senator when voting for, as showing that no views of Mr. Sumner about Canada ever prompted a vote for his removal, it shoulwithout any reference to the clause concerning Canada. But as demonstrating that he held no impractint that it did not provide for the cession of Canada, and indeed made no reference to the matter whltogether, except with the full concurrence of Canada herself, declaring with emphasis, Territory mal respond with sympathy to Sumner's thought of Canada joining speedily the sisterhood of American StCobden's contemplation of the coining union of Canada with us. What nobler epitaph can be written of[5 more...]
Colombia (Nuevo Leon, Mexico) (search for this): chapter 19
em, as near as Mr. Fish could remember, for more than two years. In reply to a written request for a list of the treaties referred to, he answered by letter, October 29, printed in the Boston Transcript, enumerating nine, —one each with Mexico, Colombia, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Austria, Salvador, and Great Britain, and two with Peru,—as transmitted to the Senate for its action, and referred by that body to the committee on foreign relations, while Mr. Sumner was its chairman, and which remained u Hoar of Massachusetts, and Mr. Fish's repeated charge found to be untrue. Mr. Sumner's chairmanship ended March 3, 1871. It was found that he reported the Mexican protocol (referred Dec. 8, 1869) on Jan. 11, 1870; the Darien Canal treaty with Colombia (referred April 1, 1870), on July 13, 1870; two treaties with Peru, and one each with Guatemala and Nicaragua (all four referred Dec. 8, 1870), on Jan. 12, 1871; one with Salvador (referred January, 1871), on March 1, 1871; one with Great Britai
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