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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)
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. The Republican party, now united against President Johnson, entered on measures to restrict his power, going in that direction as far as tid once at Sumner's table. in 18,8, that in thirty years the City of Mexico would be the capital of the United States. He sought to annex the Sandwich Islands. Seward's Life, vol. III. p. 372.— a negotiation with Denmark for the purchase of St. Thomas at the price of $7,500,000, which was submitted to the Senate in December, 1867, though not ripe for action till a year later than that time. It is a worthless island, remarkable for hurricanes, earthquakes, and droughts, destitut
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 18St. 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