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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)
Among Sumner's letters at this period was one to John Bright, October:— Mr. Bright wrote to Sumner September 6,—the beginning of their correspondence on the Civof your friends, an influence to bear. Cannot you do so? Sumner wrote to Mr. Bright, December 23:— I wish that I could see the future in our relations with Ese, this must come from the Administration, and I have today urged it. To Mr. Bright, December 30:— I know not which to be most grateful for, your speech or, they must be forgotten This, as well as a like sentence in the letter to Mr. Bright just preceding, doubtless refers to certain expressions of Mr. Seward in corr England, France, and Spain in the Gulf of Mexico means no good to us. To Mr. Bright, Jan. 9, 1862:— Yours of 21st December made me grateful again. We all you to the Secretary of War for governor of that region. Sumner wrote to Mr. Bright from Boston, August 5:— I wish I could sit by the seashore and tal
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 47: third election to the Senate. (search)
ervative Republicans assigned as a cause of the reaction the radical policy which Congress had adopted on the slavery question at its late session, and it is altogether probable that it repelled a considerable number of voters. Sumner wrote to Mr. Bright, October 28:— I wish I were at Llandudno, where for a day I could talk on our affairs and enjoy a little repose. The President is in earnest. He has no thought of any backward step; of this be assured. Since I last wrote you I have been sincerely. But I wish I could talk of these things; there is much that I cannot write. God bless you! Remember me most kindly to your mother the duchess. Pray let us keep the peace in all things as completely as possible. In a letter to Mr. Bright, of the same date, similar in substance to the one written to the duchess, he said:— Opinion with you seems to be growing worse and worse,—more utterly prejudiced and senseless. The English heart seems given to the brutal slave-masters. <
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)
founded on the perpetuity of slavery. To Mr. Bright, March 30:— Still detained at Washingt many years, but was revived in 1891. To Mr. Bright, July 21:— I have read the debate of t miss my weekly talk and instruction. To Mr. Bright, September 22:— The news from Rosecran us; but what will Louis Napoleon do? To Mr. Bright, October 6:— If Lord Russell wants cot 1861, and Dec. 18, 1862. Speeches by Rt. Hon. John Bright, edited by T. Rogers, vol. i. pp. 194, 1 United States which appeared in the Times. Mr. Bright, who saw them once, used to say that there w1863, by a committee which was introduced by Mr. Bright. New York Tribune, March 17, 1863. Sumner's etter for us in his position than he did; Mr. Bright said to E. L. Pierce that Earl Russell was ot Mr. Gladstone had been very indiscreet. Mr. Bright wrote to Sumner, October 10, 1862:— I end to Mr. Gladstone's hostile prophecies. Mr. Bright wrote to Sumner, Sept. 11, 1863:—
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)
.—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. The following extracts are given from letters written by Sumner early in the session which began in December, 1863:— To Mr. Bright, December 15:— I have just received the Manchester Examiner, containing the speeches at Rochdale, By Cobden and Bright. which I have read gratefully and admiringly. Cobden's positive testimony must tell for us; and let me add that I like him the better the nearer he gets to the position that recognition is a moral impossibility. If this were authoritatively declared, the case would soon be closed. It is because the gate is still left open that the public is
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 50: last months of the Civil War.—Chase and Taney, chief-justices.—the first colored attorney in the supreme court —reciprocity with Canada.—the New Jersey monopoly.— retaliation in war.—reconstruction.—debate on Louisiana.—Lincoln and Sumner.—visit to Richmond.—the president's death by assassination.—Sumner's eulogy upon him. —President Johnson; his method of reconstruction.—Sumner's protests against race distinctions.—death of friends. —French visitors and correspondents.—1864-1865. (search)
ing on these matters will be welcome. To Mr. Bright, February 15, 1865:— I am glad of your than to its final terminations Letter to Mr. Bright, March 13 (in manuscript). Sumner supported for creating State governments. He wrote to Mr. Bright, December 15:— The President's proclamith Congress on reconstruction. He wrote to Mr. Bright, Jan. 1, 1865– Meanwhile the questionsass of the Abolitionists. Sumner wrote to Mr. Bright, March 13:— I have your good and most ssination reached England, was received from Mr. Bright:— Rochdale, April 29, 1865. dear ny way relax your energies. Forward! To Mr. Bright, May 1:— Just this moment I have read ill be carried by simple avoirdupois. To Mr. Bright, May 16:— Just before starting for Bosnt must ever remain with him. He wrote to Mr. Bright, June 5:— I thank you for your letter elements of a republican government. To Mr. Bright, November 14:— I enclose letters just
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)
then gather all your sheaves together in a big pamphlet. Remember me kindly to Judge Fletcher when you see him. To Mr. Bright, Jan. 1, 1866:— I have just read your magnificent speech, At Birmingham, Dec. 14, 1865, chiefly on the enlargege in any rebel State when they refused to require it in a State over which at the moment they had jurisdiction? To Mr. Bright, May 21:— I was very glad to hear from you, and to find you so cheerful. Of course, I note day by day all that yrench people; but I have in a proper way always insisted that the French troops should be withdrawn from Mexico. To Mr. Bright, August 17:— I am your debtor for an excellent letter. Meanwhile on both sides of the water affairs have moved rhould I quit the national service, I should find employment with my pen or as lecturer, after a visit to Europe. To Mr. Bright, September 3:— In my last letter I anticipated several of your inquiries in the letter just received. Before th
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 52: Tenure-of-office act.—equal suffrage in the District of Columbia, in new states, in territories, and in reconstructed states.—schools and homesteads for the Freedmen.—purchase of Alaska and of St. Thomas.—death of Sir Frederick Bruce.—Sumner on Fessenden and Edmunds.—the prophetic voices.—lecture tour in the West.—are we a nation?—1866-1867. (search)
n (or perhaps fourteen) against. Fifteen to fourteen are the figures of Mr. Conness, and also of the New York Tribune, February 18. Sumner, in a note to his Works (vol. XI. p. 104), gives the vote as fifteen to thirteen, and in a letter to Mr. Bright as seventeen to fifteen. Sherman gave his recollections of the committee's action, Feb. 10, 1870. Congressional Globe, pp. 1181, 1182. This action committed the Republicans to the requirement of suffrage, irrespective of race or color, in theed it,—a term which they are apt to apply to remarks savoring of reproof. There is a temptation to administer such correction, but there is a want of tact in doing it. Laggards do not take kindly to the cracking of the whip. Sumner wrote to Mr. Bright, April 16:— The Russian treaty tried me severely; abstractedly I am against further accessions of territory, unless by the free choice of the inhabitants. But this question was perplexed by considerations of politics and comity and the
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, chapter 10 (search)
id not claim to be a specialist he knew by instinct whom it was safe to follow. He wrote to Mr. Bright, Mr. Bright had written to Sumner, in behalf of a relative who had invested in United StateMr. Bright had written to Sumner, in behalf of a relative who had invested in United States bonds, as to the probable effect of the agitation in favor of paying them in depreciated paper currency. February 4:— I wish I could answer your inquiry directly and without explanation. Evid duke's speech with great interest, and the bishop's, and am glad Longfellow was there. To Mr. Bright, August 11:— It is long since we have exchanged letters, and I now employ my last moment accession to power with you as home secretary, at least, if you choose to enter a cabinet. Mr. Bright became in December, 1868, President of the Board of Trade in Mr. Gladstone's Cabinet. I remembster whiggery; so, we fight our great battle generally with little support or sympathy. To Mr. Bright, January 17:— Of course I read carefully all that you say, whether to the public, or bet<
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)
ered, but neither referred to the vexed question which, it was generally believed, would go over to the next Administration. Sumner did not see the minister's instructions, and was not consulted concerning them. In letters to English friends, Mr. Bright among them, These letters (ante, pp. 359, 360) became the subject of controversy in the New York Nation, September 9 and 23, where their purport was erroneously stated. he mentioned Mr. Johnson's genial qualities, his remarkable position at jection of the treaty; and when Sumner's speech came to hand, they attributed the rejection wholly to him. They did not understand that its fate was sealed before he had said a word upon it, and that even his support would not have saved it. Mr. Bright expressed the view in conversations, without sufficient reflection, that Sumner, by joining in Mr. Johnson's confirmation, and commending in private letters his personal qualities, had committed himself in favor of the minister's work. W. E. F
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)
e tone: If the time has done you good, perhaps you will come again. I should not like to think I am not to meet you in this life again. God knows, and one is thankful. He alone knows the solemn future. From Chatsworth he went to Rochdale. Mr. Bright described, in 1875, his visit, thus:— His last night in England was spent at my house at Rochdale; we sat up till after midnight. The conversation, which I remember, was on many topics. Two of them I remember particularly. He spoke of tas a visit most pleasant to me and to my family. Sumner left Liverpool by the Baltic, of the White Star line, November 14, and arrived in New York the 26th, refusing the offer from the company of a free passage. From Queenstown he wrote to Mr. Bright: I leave England with regret, wishing I could see more and mingle more with English people, who are for me most agreeable and interesting. Especially do I regret Inverary, which I should have visited, my last day with you was very pleasant, bu
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