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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)
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 .—West .—1866 -1867 . (search)
the prophetic voices.—lecture tour in the
are we a nation?—
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, chapter 10 (search)
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 1872 -1873 . (search)
case.—European friends recalled.—Virginius
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, chapter 18 (search)
Appendix I: the rejected treaty for St. Thomas.
this reply by the biographer to Miss Seward's paper was published in 1889.
in this reprinting a few omissions are made to prevent repetition of what has already been stated (Ante, vol.
IV. pp. 328, 329).
Scribner's Magazine (November, 1887) contained a paper entitled A Diplomatic Episode, by Miss Olive Risley Seward, which undertakes to narrate the negotiations with Denmark for the purchase of the islands of St. Thomas and St. John in 1866-1869 by Mr. Seward (then Secretary of State), and the connection of the Senate committee on foreign relations (Mr. Sumner being chairman) with its consideration and failure of ratification.
With many words, the introduction of superfluous incidents and assertions of facts not verified by reference to sources, she gives an air of mystery to what was a plain transaction and a very simple question.
A map is inserted, as if to produce an optical illusion, on which a number of straight lines con