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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)
constituents, treated as an unrepealed and unrescinded contract Letter to E. L. Pierce, Jan. 1. 1861. Mr. Adams's action was reviewed by E. L. Pierce in the BostonE. L. Pierce in the Boston Atlas and Bee, Jan. 9, 1861; and the same journal published a leader, February 19, concerning it. a clause of the Compromise of 1850 which provided for the admissionll not be endangered. God guard her from any backward step! I have written to Pierce Henry L. Pierce, then a member of the Legislature. an off-hand letter, givinners themselves, verifying what he had said. Works, vol. v. pp. 477-480. E. L. Pierce wrote, February 14:— Your speech in the Senate was just the thing. Itshe may not take a backward step, and set her face towards barbarism! To E. L. Pierce, who had maintained before the legislative committee the conformity of the pW. Bird, G. S. Boutwell, W. Claflin, J. T. Buckingham, Dr. Samuel Cabot, and E. L. Pierce of Massachusetts. The various schemes of compromise, agitated in the win
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)
eral views, and pointed as an instance to the distinction between him and his colleagues in his view of the proper use of battle-flags. In an interview with E. L. Pierce, Dec. 4, 1878. Sumner was from the first strenuous in his contention that all attempts at reconstruction should be initiated and controlled by Congress; anotest stopped the practice of appointing military governors: and on account of it Mr. Stanton withdrew the offer of a similar appointment for South Carolina to E. L. Pierce made through Mr. Chase, who desired this appointment to be made as an offset to that of Stanly, and hoped by means of it to secure in the reorganized State a rh that from the upturned sod which receives the iron rail. In its crop are schoolhouses and churches, cities and States. Sumner took a genuine interest in E. L. Pierce's administration of the Sea Islands of South Carolina. He wrote to him, Feb. 28, 1862:— We have to-day ordered the printing of your report, which forthw
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)
the inequalities and caste distinctions which it left behind. He wrote to E. L. Pierce, Dec. 3, 1862:— If there be anything in the message which you do not l account of certain personal objections. The senator received a letter from E. L. Pierce, then in charge of freedmen on the Sea Islands, bearing witness to the genernd not the cause of one nation only, but of civilization. Sumner wrote to E. L. Pierce, Beaufort, S. C., July 1:— Horace Greeley, sometimes called General Grady to take this step; it may be in six or eight weeks; Mr. Chase desired E. L. Pierce in May, 1863, to take a position in the service of his department at the Sou The troops were, however, needed elsewhere, and the project was suspended. Mr. Pierce, however, went to the South, as Mr. Chase requested, to await events, and waso have done better for us in his position than he did; Mr. Bright said to E. L. Pierce that Earl Russell was our friend, though badly surrounded. In letters to Su
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)
er the treasury department, already charged with the abandoned lands in the insurrectionary districts, which were at the time, or likely to be hereafter, largely occupied by the freedmen. Eliot thought, and so expressed himself in letters to Sumner, that the House bill having passed by a narrow majority should not have been hazarded by amendments in the Senate, and the New York Tribune, April 12, 1864, as well as Sumner's correspondents,—John Jay, Charles E. 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 nin
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)
its power to repeal, June 10, 1868; Works, vol. XII. pp. 414-438. He expressed himself, May 28, in favor of applying the condition to Arkansas. (Congressional Globe, p. 2628.) His argument did not satisfy some of his friends, particularly E. L. Pierce, who wrote, June 23, doubting the validity of such conditions after the admission of the State, and regarding a constitutional prohibition as the only perfect and effective remedy.—when he was supported by the entire Republican vote; and the bt her home in San Francisco. The funeral service was conducted at the house by Rev. Henry W. Foote, who afterwards performed the same service for the son. Before returning to Washington, Sumner accepted an invitation to drive with his friend, E. L. Pierce, in the suburb of Milton,—a diversion which he had been accustomed to take once during each recess of Congress. During the drive around the Blue Hills, the conversation turning upon the conditions which inclined people to marriage, he said 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)
as running in favor of the impeachment; but the country was as yet opposed to a resort to this extraordinary remedy for Executive misdoing. C. G. Loring and E. L. Pierce so wrote to Sumner in the winter and spring. Sumner wrote to W. W. Story, Dec. 16, 1866:— I wish you might make a statue of Lincoln. He is an historthat being removed, Jan. 5, 1888, it was found that not one of the entries she had stated to have been made were upon them. A reply was made to her article by E. L. Pierce, published in pamphlet in Boston, 1889, and in the Boston Herald, Nov. 10, 1889. It contained the testimonies of the only surviving members of the committee-Colleague Wilson, as we were coming away from the hall in Boston on the evening of the lecture, said in the tone of criticism, The States are something, still. E. L. Pierce wrote to Sumner, November 19: People are much pleased, particularly average people, with the Address. It perhaps declares a somewhat higher Caesarism than som
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, chapter 10 (search)
passed from one picture or old book or autograph to another. A few friends occupied his guest chamber,—Dr. Palfrey, E. L. Pierce, Dr. S. G. Howe, G. W. Greene, J. B. Smith, and M. Milmore,—while Emerson, Whittier, Agassiz, Bemis, G. W. Curtis, anhe served as pall-bearer, and arriving in Boston in the middle of August. Just before leaving Washington, he wrote to E. L. Pierce: I am hot and weary, with many things to trouble me. You cannot enter into the depths of my sorrows, which revive at ed him for re-election by a resolution September 9; Works, vol. XII. p. 518. passed unanimously, which was drawn by E. L. Pierce, and presented by R. H. Dana, Jr., the latter having been the opponent six years before of a similar declaration. Sumheart. His friends also, who took the most interest in his personal fortunes, were averse to his leaving the Senate. E. L. Pierce wrote to him, Jan. 20, 1869: By your service in the Senate you are to live in the history of the country. Is it not b
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 56: San Domingo again.—the senator's first speech.—return of the angina pectoris.—Fish's insult in the Motley Papers.— the senator's removal from the foreign relations committee.—pretexts for the remioval.—second speech against the San Domingo scheme.—the treaty of Washington.—Sumner and Wilson against Butler for governor.—1870-1871. (search)
cords, though open to him, were not accessible to the public, and as he supposed never would he. Nevertheless, Sumner's friends having procured the removal of the seal of secrecy, it appeared that the senator had reported all but one of the treaties, reporting the eight with remarkable promptness, keeping five of them only about a month, and one of them only a single day; and the one unreported had been with the committee but three months, and was held back presumably for good reasons. E. L. Pierce in the Boston Transcript, Nov. 28, 1877, and in the North American Review, July-August, 1878, pp. 61-80. See Appendix. He was busy with its work to the last, reporting two treaties March 1, two days before his connection with it ended. Yet, after this disclosure and vindication, Mr. Fish did not regard it a ditty to recall his libel on a dead man. His gravest charge being thus shown by the record to have been false, all other charges and insinuations against the senator dependent on his
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)
ed to him in terms of respect, and abstained in their resolutions from any formal censure. E. L. Pierce prepared and reported, as chairman of the committee, resolutions at the Republican State convd the tender,—among whom were Hillard, Bird, E. P. Whipple, G. H. Monroe, Martin Milmore, and E. L. Pierce. Most of them parted with him at the wharf, but Hillard, Pierce, and one or two others accomPierce, and one or two others accompanied him to the steamship Malta, then lying below the lower lighthouse. While the tender was on its way, Sumner and Hillard sat for an hour or more together in the pilot-house. The senator seemed cessity brings about. Ever truly your friend. Sumner, when off the Irish coast, wrote to E. L. Pierce, September 13:— The sea is to me always a nuisance. I shall not he content until it iszes, and china, which Mr. Cowdin assisted in forwarding. He wrote from Paris, October 17, to E. L. Pierce:— I have had much occasion latterly to meditate on the justice and friendship of this w<
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 58: the battle-flag resolution.—the censure by the Massachusetts Legislature.—the return of the angina pectoris. —absence from the senate.—proofs of popular favor.— last meetings with friends and constituents.—the Virginius case.—European friends recalled.—1872-1873. (search)
the petition for rescinding now appeared to oppose it. E. L. Pierce, at Mr. Whittier's request, closed the hearing with a rical statement,—Charles Sumner and the Battle Flags, by E. L. Pierce, which gives in detail what the text attempts to give orinkled front of war. Thanks, and God bless you! To E. L. Pierce he wrote gratefully for his effort before the committeeine. Relief then came, followed by sleep. He wrote to E. L. Pierce, April 12: I am sorry to report that I am very feebe, asion of spirits; and of these were Wendell Phillips and E. L. Pierce, who were his guests,—the latter in January, and the fo never determined the permanent judgment of mankind. E. L. Pierce's letter, Feb. 9, 1873. His love of life, which was weal accord, were not long to be divided. Sumner wrote to E. L. Pierce, May 10:— I shall be sorry not to see you before journey and his heavy bills for medical attendance. To E. L. Pierce he wrote, April 3: I am yet in debt for my European tri<
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