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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 44: Secession.—schemes of compromise.—Civil War.—Chairman of foreign relations Committee.—Dr. Lieber.—November, 1860– April, 1861. (search)
n's could not fail. Greeley's despairing state of mind at times is revealed in his letter to Lincoln, July 29, 1861. Nicolay and Hay's Life of Lincoln, vol. IV. p. 365. A great pressure was brought to bear upon Mr. Lincoln, before he left hthe Missouri Compromise line, or the adoption of the dogma of popular sovereignty. New York Tribune, Jan. 30, 1861. Nicolay and Hay's Life of Lincoln, vol. III. pp. 258, 259, 279-288, 327 note. This general statement concerning Mr. Lincoln's p the suggestion of concentration of power with the single comment: I remark that if this must be done, I must do it. Nicolay and Hay's Life of Lincoln, vol. III. pp. 444-449. Seward's biographer does not explain or comment upon his remarkable s irritation, were phrased with an exasperating bluntness, and certain directions were lacking in diplomatic prudence. Nicolay and Hay's Life of Lincoln, vol. IV. pp. 269-277, Sumner was in Washington when this despatch was under consideration, a
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)
nt's instance, though the fact of his interposition was at his request kept from the public. Nicolay and Hay's Life of Lincoln, vol. IV. pp. 390, 391. Negroes were forbidden to leave Washington edeon Welles, p. 185. The Cabinet generally coincided in expressing gratification and approval. Nicolay and Hay's Life of Lincoln, vol. v. p. 26. The House of Representatives, meeting within a monthe in session the letters he had just received from Bright and Cobden concerning the capture. Nicolay and Hay's Life of Lincoln, vol. v. p. 35. Sumner was anxious to prevent the negotiation be, 40; post, p. 110; Seward's Life, vol. III. pp 118, 135; Welles's Lincoln and Seward, p. 210; Nicolay and Hay's Life of Lincoln, vol. VI p. 128; Owen Lovejoy's letter to W. L. Garrison, Feb. 22, 1ss. Mr. Lincoln's comments on the opposite views of Sumner and Blair are given in his Life, by Nicolay and Hay, vol. IX. p. 336. Peace was as—yet so far in the distance that the question had not be
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)
3; in Schuckers's Life of S. P. Chase, pp. 473-475; Welles's Lincoln and Seward, pp. 81-85; and Nicolay and Hay's Life of Lincoln, vol. VI. pp. 263-272. The last account referred to needs confirmatidesired him to be appointed to the Cabinet after Blair himself had been compelled to leave it. (Nicolay and Hay, vol. IX. p. 349.) His cordial understanding with Welles appears in the latter's book n, and revived it at a Cabinet meeting, Feb. 5, 1865, in which it found no favorable response. Nicolay and Hay, vol. x. pp. 133-137. and the measure was not again agitated. Miscellaneous mattersn foreign relations, where it remained without report under Sumner's judicious chairmanship. Nicolay and Hay's Life of Lincoln, vol. VII. p. 407. McDougall was restive under the oblivion to whichints and theories. A less favorable view of Lord Lyons's conferences in New York is taken in Nicolay and Hay's Life of Lincoln, vol. VI. pp. 84-88. If these men at that time talked of peace and o
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)
Trumbull once told Fessenden that his ill-temper had left him no friends. （Nicolay and Hay's Life of Lincoln, vol. IX. p. 100.) Its exhibitions were frequent, a Meanwhile I keep Mexico in my committee, where I have the Arguelles case Nicolay and Hay's Life of Lincoln, vol. IX. pp. 44-47. and a joint resolution from thntgomery Blair, He removed Blair, September 23, yielding to the pressure. （Nicolay and Hay's Life of Lincoln, vol. IX. pp. 339-342.) A resolution of the Republittee to request the Republican national committee to postpone the convention. Nicolay and Hay's Life of Lincoln, vol. IX. pp. 57, 58. and the New York Independent.ened. At this time Mr. Lincoln himself faced defeat as altogether probable. Nicolay and Hay's Life of Lincoln, vol. IX. pp. 249-251. The disaffection which then e counselled against any action which might be construed as hostile to him. Nicolay and Hay (Life of Lincoln, vol. IX. p. 367) are incorrect in saying that the N
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)
endation as soon as he reached Washington. Nicolay and Hay's Life of Lincoln, vol. IX. p. 394. ere held under the protection of gunboats. Nicolay and Hay's Life of Lincoln, vol. VI. pp. 349-eir orders immediately from the President. Nicolay and Hay's Life of Lincoln, vol. VIII. pp. 40plan would go no further than the message. Nicolay and Hay's statement, vol. IX. p. 109, that Show their anxiety for the fate of this bill. Nicolay and Hay's Life of Lincoln, vol. IX. pp. 120,se there will be no agreement in anything; Nicolay and Hay's Life of Lincoln, vol. VIII. pp. 4 Lincoln said this of Sumner, Jan 18, 1865. （Nicolay and Hay's Life of Lincoln, vol. x. pp. 84, 8h had been instituted under his direction. Nicolay and Hay's Life of Lincoln, vol. VIII. p. 418parently with Sumner's opposition in mind. Nicolay and Hay's Life of Lincoln, vol. IX. pp. 457- to be resumed the next Tuesday, the 18th. Nicolay and Hay's Life of Lincoln, vol. x. pp. 283-2[10 more...]
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)
not doing so. The President was an inaccurate narrator of civil affairs. Thus, in his Personal Memoirs, vol. II. pp. 505, 506, he gives as an instance of Stanton's characteristic of never questioning his own authority, that he revoked at Washington, while Mr. Lincoln was at or near Richmond, the latter's order for the meeting of the rebel Legislature of Virginia; where as the revocation—a fact always well known—was made by Mr. Lincoln himself at Washington two days before his death. （Nicolay and Hay's Life of Lincoln, vol. x. pp. 227-228.) Gideon Welles in the Galaxy (April and May. 1872, pp. 531, 532, 666) disagrees with the general's memory of what took place in the Cabinet. April 14, 1865. General Grant also stated to George William Curtis that Sumner had neglected to report several treaties; but when Harper's weekly of Dec. 8, 1877, was shown to him, which gave the record of the Senate proving that he had reported them with due promptness, the general continued to assume <