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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 2 0 Browse Search
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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4 2 0 Browse Search
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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 55: Fessenden's death.—the public debt.—reduction of postage.— Mrs. Lincoln's pension.—end of reconstruction.—race discriminations in naturalization.—the Chinese.—the senator's record.—the Cuban Civil War.—annexation of San Domingo.—the treaties.—their use of the navy.—interview with the presedent.—opposition to the annexation; its defeat.—Mr. Fish.—removal of Motley.—lecture on Franco-Prussian War.—1869-1870. (search)
an authorities; The majority were Nye, Howard, Williams, and Warner; and the minority, Ferry, Schurz, and Vickers. but the minority report had the signature of Ferry, who was unquestioned in his devotion to the Republican party, and who in character and position carried greater weight than Nye. Mr. Fish, as might have been expected from one of his conservative temperament, was at first no better affected towards the annexation than Sumner; Sumner's Statement, March, 1871, p. 259; H. B. Adams in North American Review, July, 1870. p. 57; Gen. J. D. Cox's notice of General Grant in the New York Nation, July 30, 1885. Badeau says for once what was doubtless true: Even when Grant determined on a course that Fish would not perhaps have advised, the secretary stanchly supported his chief. Grant in Peace, p. 233. but under the President's pressure he became its partisan, and at Sumner's house pleaded with the senator to support the treaty,—not on the ground that it was a good thing