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aring to him books and pamphlets most likely to interest him. Mr. Livermore's last note to him, dated June 7, was grateful and affectionate. He died in August. Sumner at once published a tribute to his friend, in which he commemorated his refined tastes, generous sympathies, and enthusiasm in bibliography. Boston Advertiser, Sept. 2, 1865; Works, vol. IX. pp. 433-436. Sumner's early friend, the seventh Earl of Carlisle, Ante, vol. II. p. 71. died Dec. 5, 1864, at Castle Howard, Yorkshire. His disease was paralysis, which had disabled him in the summer. His niece, the Duchess of Argyll, kept Sumner informed of the progress of his malady, and his brother, Charles Howard, Younger brother of the seventh earl and son-in-law of Lord Wensleydale (Baron Parke). His only son George, who married a daughter of the second Lord Stanley of Alderley, succeeded to the earldom in 1889 by the death of his uncle, William George, eighth earl. communicated the tidings of his death. The p
Madrid (Spain) (search for this): chapter 7
me completed, and the whole constituting one of the most magnificent edifices of the world. Campbell, formerly of the Supreme Court of the United States, and reputed the ablest lawyer in the slave States, began the conference by suggesting peace on the basis of a Zollverein, and continued free-trade between the two sections, which he thought might pave the way to something hereafter; but he could not promise anything. This was also the theory of the French minister here, M. Mercier, now at Madrid, who insisted that the war must end in that way. It was remarked that the men had nothing of the haughty and defiant way which they had in Washington formerly. Mr. Blair, who visited Richmond, still insists that peace is near. He says that the war cannot go on another month on their side unless they have help from Louis Napoleon. But here the question of a monarchical government may arise. Jefferson Davis, whom he describes as so emaciated and altered as not to be recognized, sets his fa
Alabama (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
the President's honesty of purpose, and advised co-operation with him. 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, shows, was not in entire accord with Republican methods of reconstruction. The editors of the New Yoraw-bone. He seemed to rally something of his old force when he wrote that brief note to Lord Russell. I think he is determined to perservere in that way. I see that the correspondent of the Times says that as soon as the elections are over the Alabama claims will be paid. The lawyers here all side with Mr. Bemis, and think he has shown the shifts and, pretensions of the British government, and that the idea of the blockade is an afterthought. On the suffrage question the President has c
Nassau River (Florida, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
it will be carried by simple avoirdupois. To Mr. Bright, May 16:— Just before starting for Boston, I acknowledge yours of April 29. The feeling in England is not greater than I anticipated. I hope it will make your government see the crime with which for four years it has fraternized. Mr. Seward's disability causes a suspension of our diplomatic discussions, which I think he is anxious to resume. He was aroused to great indignation when he heard that the British authorities at Nassau had been receiving the pirate Stonewall. A proclamation was sent to him yesterday, in the draft which concluded with something about the peace and safety of the United States. He speaks with difficulty, but he stammered forth not safety, but dignity; the United States are safe enough. I have been pained by seeing him, as he shows so many signs of the terrible hazards he has passed. I am sorry that Jeff. Davis is caught; if not shot in pursuit, I wish he had escaped. Grant was anxious to
St. Albans, Vt. (Vermont, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
d March 17, 1866; and though the subject has been kept alive by discussion, no new one has been made. He also reported and advocated a resolution adopting and ratifying a notice already given by the President for terminating the treaty of 1817, by which the naval forces of the two powers on the lakes were limited. Jan. 18, 1865. Works, vol. IX. pp. 201-205. He replied to Davis of Kentucky, who maintained that the President's act was void and incapable of ratification. A debate on the St. Albans' Raid drew from him some remarks against any acts on our side which would furnish any seeming apology for foreign intervention. Dec. 19, 1864. Works, vol. IX. pp. 174-177. Sumner argued in the Senate that rich and poor, when relieving themselves from a draft by paying a sum as commutation, should be put on an equality by requiring, in addition to a fixed sum required of all, a further sum, annually, proportionate to income; but his view did not prevail, though it obtained a respec
France (France) (search for this): chapter 7
scharged. A. Lincoln. March 18, 1865. Then followed an incident as original as anything in the life of Henry IV. of France, or of a Lacedaemonian king. As Mr. Sumner was making an abstract of the indorsement for communication by telegraph to tudy of Mr. Lincoln is there so fine a statement of his simplicity in character and habit—carried, as with Saint Louis of France, Montalembert, in a letter to Sumner, referred to this comparison as felicitous. into public business—or of the qualitccasion Mr. Bancroft's eulogy on Mr. Lincoln before Congress in February, 1866, set forth the shortcomings of England, France, and the Pope, to the discomfort of the diplomatists present. but he could not forego the opportunity to renew his protesto his brother. M. Chevalier wrote July 2, 1865, but his letters were infrequent. There was hardly any public opinion in France, and the action of the government was the expression of the emperor's will. Montalembert, whom Sumner had met on his la
Indiana (Indiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
ress to control the reconstruction. B. Gratz Brown alone responded without qualification to Sumner's appeal. Of the members of the House, Boutwell At Weymouth, July 4. of Massachusetts, Julian Julian's Political Recollections, p. 268. of Indiana, and Garfield of Ohio, At Ravenna, O., July 4. Works of J. A. Garfield, vol. i. p. 85. each addressed the people of his State in favor of admitting freedmen to the suffrage. Sherman, speaking at Circleville, O., June 10, showed himself fident Johnson, June 12. Mr. Dawes had taken the same position in a speech in the House, Feb 20, 1865. Among public men not in Congress, journalists and other leaders of public opinion, Sumner's cause found little support. Governor Morton of Indiana denounced it before the people, and took issue directly with the senator. Julian's Political Recollections, pp. 260-268. George W. Julian at once replied to Morton in the Indiana True Republican, and also in speeches. Governor Andrew of Massa
Porto Rico (search for this): chapter 7
Mrs. L. M. Child, April 2:— I trust that the letter to the emperor of Brazil, with the excellent tract, Mrs. Child's pamphlet, The Right Way the Safe Way. is already far on the way. I gave them to the Brazilian minister here, with the request that he would have the goodness to forward them. I count much upon the enlightened character of the emperor. Of course, slavery must cease everywhere when it ceases among us. Its neck is in our rebellion, which we are now sure to cut. Cuba, Porto Rico, and Brazil must do as we do, without our terrible war, I trust. Sumner remained in Washington two months longer. It was, as already seen, his custom to linger there after the close of a session in order to bring up arrears of business and correspondence, and to prosecute studies on questions pending or at hand; but he had a particular purpose now, when projects of reconstruction, in view of the approaching end of the rebellion, were rife. During these weeks he saw much of the Presid
Greenville, Tenn. (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
6, 1866. While retaining its Republican connection, it regarded (November 6, 7, and 8, 1867) the reconstruction measures of Congress, except the fourteenth amendment, as needless, violent, unstatesmanlike, and fanatical. The New York Times, in successive leaders, took positive ground against negro suffrage as any part of the reconstruction. March 2; June 3, 19, 21, 23, 24, 26, 28, 29. The Cincinnati Commercial printed eleven years later letters found in Andrew Johnson's office at Greenville, Tenn., after his death, which approved his policy of reconstruction at the outset. Among them were letters and telegrams from George Bancroft, James Gordon Bennett, Henry J. Raymond, Simon Cameron, and W. H. Seward. Charles A. Dana, then an editor in Chicago, wrote to Sumner that it was advisable to keep with the President as far as possible in order to prevent the Democrats coming into power through any unnecessary quarrel among ourselves. His journal, the Chicago Republican, justified
Warrington, Fla. (Florida, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
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
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