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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 45: an antislavery policy.—the Trent case.—Theories of reconstruction.—confiscation.—the session of 1861-1862. (search)
day of his life. On this question he showed to the end the perseverance of the youth who carried to completion the plan of a pedestrian journey when his companions one after another left him to continue it alone. Ante, vol. i. p. 69. When appropriate bills were pending, he moved and advocated amendments to remove the disability of colored persons as witnesses in the courts of the United States, including proceedings for confiscation, April 3. Works, vol. VI. pp. 442-444; May 12 and June 28, vol. VI. pp. 502, 503; July 3, 7, and 15, vol. VII. pp. 152-161. and as carriers of mails. March 18, 1862. Works, vol. VI. p. 385-388. In these efforts he encountered unexpected resistance from Republican senators and representatives, sometimes on the ground that his motions were likely to defeat a beneficial measure,—for instance, from Hale and Clark of New Hampshire and Foster of Connecticut as to the removal of the former disability, and from Colfax in the House as to the removal
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 48: Seward.—emancipation.—peace with France.—letters of marque and reprisal.—foreign mediation.—action on certain military appointments.—personal relations with foreigners at Washington.—letters to Bright, Cobden, and the Duchess of Argyll.—English opinion on the Civil War.—Earl Russell and Gladstone.—foreign relations.—1862-1863. (search)
olay and Hay's Life of Lincoln, vol. VII. p. 407. McDougall was restive under the oblivion to which his measure was consigned, and made several attempts to revive it by a vote to discharge the committee; but in this he was defeated, May 27, by a decisive vote. Sumner committed to a similar burial Wade's resolution of inquiry on Mexican affairs; and McDougall confessed his own inability to resist the tide of power in the Senate held by the chairman of the committee on foreign relations. June 28. Congressional Globe, p. 3339. As has been well said, the committee on foreign affairs of the House of Representatives had a chairman of a very different temper from Mr. Sumner,—Henry Winter Davis, who was equally distinguished for his eloquence and his ardor, his tenacity of opinion and his impatience of contradiction. He carried, April 4, 1864, as soon as reported, and without debate except brief remarks in its support from himself and Samuel S. Cox (a public man whose besetting fr
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)
Norton, John M. Forbes, and E. L. Pierce,—took the same view; but Sumner's reply was that his committee was adverse to the House bill, he being one of the only two members who had sustained it in committee. The Democrats in both Houses were as a body opposed to any bureau, and there was more or less distrust of the measure among Republicans. Horace Greeley wrote Sumner, Feb. 7, 1865, in opposition to the measure. Sumner pressed it with his characteristic pertinacity, and it was carried, June 28, by a vote of twenty-one to nine, with a number of Republican absentees. Among those not voting was Grimes, whose argument implied distrust of the scheme in any shape. He had confined himself in debate to objections, mostly captious, to some provisions, and to strained interpretations of others, contending also that the powers of supervision, instead of protecting the negroes, would promote their continued subjection. He and Sumner had many spirited encounters, and Grimes's temper and ma
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 51: reconstruction under Johnson's policy.—the fourteenth amendment to the constitution.—defeat of equal suffrage for the District of Columbia, and for Colorado, Nebraska, and Tennessee.—fundamental conditions.— proposed trial of Jefferson Davis.—the neutrality acts. —Stockton's claim as a senator.—tributes to public men. —consolidation of the statutes.—excessive labor.— address on Johnson's Policy.—his mother's death.—his marriage.—1865-1866. (search)
n. 10 and 11 (Congressional Globe, pp. 160, 161）—Feb. 22, 1837 (Globe. pp. 1720-1722); March 7, 1867 (Globe, p. 15）—at the international maritime exhibition at Havre, Jan 24, 27, 30, and Feb. 6, 1868 (Globe, pp. 731, 767, 848. 1006-1011), and at the international health congress at Constantinople, April 11, 1866 (Globe, p. 1883); a survey of the Isthmus of Darien with a view to a ship canal, July 25, 1866 (Works, vol. x. pp. 500, 501); a ship canal at Niagara, independent of State assent, June 28 (Works, vol. x. pp. 475-478): a submarine cable at Behring Strait, February 21 (Globe, p. 953); more intimate relations with the Sandwich Islands by a direct mail service. July 17 (Works, vol. x. pp 486-489); exclusion of criminals pardoned by foreign governments on condition of emigrating to the United States, March 19 (Globe. pp. 1492, 1493); claims or compensation of persons connected with the foreign service of the government, March 15 and 16, May 16. July 2 and 3 Globe, pp. 1421,
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 54: President Grant's cabinet.—A. T. Stewart's disability.—Mr. Fish, Secretary of State.—Motley, minister to England.—the Alabama claims.—the Johnson-Clarendon convention.— the senator's speech: its reception in this country and in England.—the British proclamation of belligerency.— national claims.—instructions to Motley.—consultations with Fish.—political address in the autumn.— lecture on caste.—1869. (search)
hould we assume needless responsibilities of money or arms? Again, July 19:— The best chance for Cuba is through a kindly policy with Spain. With a thoroughly upright system we can obtain all we desire. Judge Hoar wrote to Sumner, June 28:— You would make no apology for your Cuban sermon if you knew how zealous a member of the same church you were addressing. My wish and first impulse was to inclose your note to the President, but I forbore for two reasons: (1) I had not yCuba,—as to which, however, I trust there will be no premature or indiscreet action calculated to be inconvenient to the United States or unjust to Spain. The general mistook the caveat, which was as stated above. Sumner wrote to Cushing, June 28, from Boston:— The statement to which you refer has perhaps tranquillized the press; but I question if it does not contain expressions which weaken our case at home and abroad. I would never have said that the policy was as firm and vigo