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April 15th (search for this): chapter 7
s the President's last pleasantry before going to the play on the fatal night. Boston Journal, April 15; New York Tribune, April 17. They returned to the boat, where they remained till morning. Th his arm was not tired. Works, vol. IX. p. 410; New York Tribune, April 11; Boston Journal, April 15. The correspondent of the Journal, April 10, probably obtained the details of his account fromson in Scribner's Magazine, October, 1874, p. 224, in the correspondence of the Boston Journal, April 15, and in Chaplin's Life of Sumner, pp. 413-417, which contains a statement furnished by Moorfielowed down almost on the pillow of the bed on which the President was lying. New York Herald, April 15; Tribune, April 15. A witness, in describing the last moment of the scene, said: Senator SumnerApril 15. A witness, in describing the last moment of the scene, said: Senator Sumner, General Todd, Robert Lincoln, and Rufus Andrews stood leaning over the headboard, watching every motion of the beating heart of the dying President. Robert Lincoln was resting on the arm of Senator
April 16th (search for this): chapter 7
d: Senator Sumner, General Todd, Robert Lincoln, and Rufus Andrews stood leaning over the headboard, watching every motion of the beating heart of the dying President. Robert Lincoln was resting on the arm of Senator Sumner. New York Herald, April 16. At the moment of death Sumner was at the head of the bed, by the side of Robert Lincoln. Nicolay and Hay's Life of Lincoln, vol. x. p. 300. As soon as Mr. Lincoln breathed his last, Sumner drove with General Halleck to Mr. Seward's, whose it appeared with a provision for suffrage in the election of members of a constitutional convention for the State. It included the loyal citizens of the United States residing within the State. Tills paragraph, it appears, Stanton had accepted April 16 as an amendment from Sumner and Colfax. Being now questioned as to its purport, he admitted that it was intended to include negroes as well as white men. He objected to a discussion, but invited an expression of opinion and the members (Seward
April 17th (search for this): chapter 7
t for the ancient archives, and inquired about certain public men, particularly Hunter, formerly senator. The incident is related that Sumner's having obtained at Richmond the gavel of the Confederate Congress, which he proposed to give to Stanton, Mr. Lincoln said to Speaker Colfax that he ought to have it, adding, Tell him [Sumner] from me to hand it over. This was the President's last pleasantry before going to the play on the fatal night. Boston Journal, April 15; New York Tribune, April 17. They returned to the boat, where they remained till morning. This was Sumner's first and only visit to Richmond; and it gave him an opportunity to see Crawford's statue of Washington, in which he had been greatly interested. The night was weird, with Manchester still burning, and the flames visible from the boat, but Richmond lying in darkness. The next morning (Friday) the party returned to City Point, and (the President joining them) they went to Petersburg, going and returning by r
April 18th (search for this): chapter 7
ic, which being connected with his blessed memory I am sure you will prize. I am endeavoring to regain my strength sufficiently to be able to leave here in a few days. I go hence broken-hearted, with every hope almost in life crushed. Notwithstanding my utter desolation through life, the memory of the cherished friend of my husband and myself will always be most gratefully remembered. With kindest regards, I remain always Yours very truly, Mary Lincoln. Sumner wrote to Mr. Bright, April 18:— Not even the tragedy here can make me indifferent to the death of Richard Cobden, who was my personal friend and the friend of my country. I felt with you entirely in the touching words which you uttered in Parliament. I wish he could have lived to enjoy our triumph and to continue his counsels. His name will be cherished here as in England. History will be for him more than Westminster Abbey. You will be shocked by the crime in which belligerent slavery, crushed in arms, has s
April 22nd (search for this): chapter 7
they were to be undeceived. Sumner remained in Washington till the middle of May. The President, since Mr. Lincoln's death, had been lodging in Mr. Hooper's house, and occupying temporarily as his office a room in the treasury department. Sumner had waited on him almost daily, calling often on public business, and had at several of these interviews pressed his views of reconstruction, particularly as to the justice and policy of suffrage for the colored people. On the evening of Saturday, April 22, just a week after he took his oath, Chase (the chief-justice) and Sumner had an interview with him, in which they urged him to say something for the equal rights of the colored people. He was sympathetic in manner, and while reserved, was no more so than his position justified. Works, vol. IX. p. 478. Both left him light-hearted. A few days later, when the President and senator were alone together, the former said to the latter, On this question [that of suffrage] there is no di
April 23rd (search for this): chapter 7
well as others. Scribner's Magazine, October, 1874, p. 224. His friend and former secretary, A. B. Johnson, has described his manner and conversation at this time, while he sat stern and haggard over his untasted breakfast, but steady in mind and unshaken in courage, as he contemplated the rebellion defeated and degraded to assassination. Sumner chafed under the presence of the guard, which he thought useless; but Stanton decided it to be a necessary precaution. Lieber, in a letter, April 23, enjoined on Sumner to be careful, believing him to be one of those who had been spotted. The senators and representatives who were in Washington met at noon on Monday, the 17th, and after the choice of a chairman and secretary, and a statement by Senator Foot of Vermont, Sumner moved a committee of five to report at four in the afternoon the action proper for the meeting. The committee (Sumner chairman) reported a list of pall-bearers, and a committee of one from each State to accompa
April 24th (search for this): chapter 7
n in the River Queen to Washington. The company was a small one; their meals were taken at one table, and they were thrown familiarly together. Breakfasting, lunching, and dining in one small family party, etc. Sumner to the Duchess of Argyll, April 24 (manuscript). Conversation flowed freely, and all were happy, full of rejoicing and hope. The recent successes, the sure and speedy end of the rebellion, and the coming of peace were the topics. Probably it was while coming up the Potomac th what is irritating and evil in the past. Forgive this short and hurried note. I feel unable to write what I wish and what I feel. Always with much sympathy, Your sincere friend, John Bright. Sumner wrote to the Duchess of Argyll, April 24:— The Sewards, father and son, have rallied to-day, and seem to be doing well. The conspirators will be caught. Perhaps you will not be offended if I let you know that I showed the late President, at his request, your letter of March 2,
April 25th (search for this): chapter 7
their country. I was at the theatre with him the last time he had been there before his assassination. I mentioned to him the purport of your letter. He at once said, I wish you would show me that letter. I sent it to him, and he returned it in an envelope on which he had written your name and under cover to my address, with his frank in the upper right-hand corner, where with us the frank is written. I send them as autographs, which may interest some of your friends. To F. W. Bird, April 25:— I have seen a good deal of the new President, and have conversed on questions of business and of general policy. His manner has been excellent, and even sympathetic, without any uncomfortable reticence. On Saturday the chief-justice and myself visited him in the evening, especially with the view of conversing on negro suffrage. Suffice it to say that he is well disposed, and sees the rights and necessities of the case, all of which I urged earnestly. Both of us left him light-he
April 29th (search for this): chapter 7
orty gentlemen dined at Bird's room, A Republican club, composed mostly of radical antislavery men, which dined on Saturdays in Boston. and all, nemine dissentiente, approved it, and with full praise. Frederick Douglass wrote from Rochester, April 29:— The friends of freedom all over the country have looked to you and confided in you, of all men in the United States Senate, during all this terrible war. They will look to you all the more now that peace dawns, and the final settlement owhat a regenerated land! I had looked for a bitter contest on this question; but with the President on our side, it will be carried by simple avoirdupois. To Mr. Bright, May 16:— Just before starting for Boston, I acknowledge yours of April 29. The feeling in England is not greater than I anticipated. I hope it will make your government see the crime with which for four years it has fraternized. Mr. Seward's disability causes a suspension of our diplomatic discussions, which I thin
May (search for this): chapter 7
l he is able to co-operate with Grant. You will see from this statement something of the nature of the campaign. Mr. Stanton thinks it ought to be finished before May. I have for a long time been sanguine that after Lee's army is out of the way the whole rebellion will disappear. While that is in a fighting condition there is s was now in safer hands than it would have-been in Mr. Lincoln's; but in a few weeks they were to be undeceived. Sumner remained in Washington till the middle of May. The President, since Mr. Lincoln's death, had been lodging in Mr. Hooper's house, and occupying temporarily as his office a room in the treasury department. Sumnidity of the proceedings which had been taken in Tennessee, Louisiana, and Arkansas. The change of mind which the President underwent during the last ten days of May has been attributed to his egotism, which was plied by the flatteries of Southern leaders; Carl Schurz in two letters, June 27 and July 8, urged Sumner to go to
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