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Brazil (Brazil) (search for this): chapter 7
ld, April 2:— I trust that the letter to the emperor of Brazil, with the excellent tract, Mrs. Child's pamphlet, The Right Way the Safe Way. is already far on the way. I gave them to the Brazilian minister here, with the request that he would have the goodness to forward them. I count much upon the enlightened character of the emperor. Of course, slavery must cease everywhere when it ceases among us. Its neck is in our rebellion, which we are now sure to cut. Cuba, Porto Rico, and Brazil must do as we do, without our terrible war, I trust. Sumner remained in Washington two months longer. It was, as already seen, his custom to linger there after the close of a session in order to bring up arrears of business and correspondence, and to prosecute studies on questions pending or at hand; but he had a particular purpose now, when projects of reconstruction, in view of the approaching end of the rebellion, were rife. During these weeks he saw much of the President in friendl
Kansas (Kansas, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
kely to involve a sacrifice of the bill, and it received only five votes—those of Brown, Lane of Kansas, Morgan, Pomeroy, and Sumner. Even Hale waived his conscientious scruples and went for expediente March 2. A few days later the question came up directly on a resolution introduced by Lane of Kansas, to recognize the State government of Arkansas initiated under the President's direction, when Sthe throats of the Senate to that of another senator from Illinois (Douglas), who brought in his Kansas-Nebraska bill in precisely the same manner—proudly, confidently, almost menacingly, with the decpretended State government as a mockery—a miserable mockery, like the Lecompton constitution for Kansas; taunted Trumbull for his miraculous conversion on the Louisiana question; protested against theess recognizing its right to representation. March 8, 1865. Works, vol. IX. p. 340. Lane of Kansas, who was the partisan of the senators seeking admission, referring to Sumner's opposition to the<
Canada (Canada) (search for this): chapter 7
nths 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 What say you to Dix's order? There can be no question that any general on the frontier might follow invaders back into Canada if the Canadian government should fail in its duties; but a deliberate order in advance to invade neutral territory is a the committee [on foreign relations]: (1) The termination of the reciprocity treaty; (2) Armaments on the lakes; (3) The Canadian complications; (4) Mexico; (5) Arguelles case; (6) Claims of England growing out of the war; (7) Florida case; (8) Questr system of taxes, resulting from the treaty, and looked to a revision and suspension of the relation of reciprocity with Canada rather than to its final terminations Letter to Mr. Bright, March 13 (in manuscript). Sumner supported earn
Trumbull (Connecticut, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
Advertiser, Jan. 7, 1871; ante, p. 205. The narrative now reaches, so far as the Senate is concerned, the debate on Trumbull's resolution reported Feb. 18, 1865, from the committee on the judiciary, recognizing as the legitimate government of Loan embarrassing position, and most of them were disposed to overlook the illegal and irregular origin of the movement. Trumbull's course was a surprise, as he had at the last session opposed the recognition of the Arkansas government, and had at thng near, and that efforts to force a vote would be fruitless, like sowing salt in the sand by the seashore. He compared Trumbull's attempt to cram the resolution down the throats of the Senate to that of another senator from Illinois (Douglas), who se continued existence will be a burden, a reproach, and a wrong. At the end of his next sentence, which was pointed at Trumbull, Sherman insisted on conforming the debate strictly to his motion to take up a revenue bill. Senators at last recognize
Minnesota (Minnesota, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
ss met with showed clearly that whatever might be the current of opinion elsewhere, the people of Massachusetts were with Sumner. Fortunate the senator who had such a constituency! The convention approved the admission of negroes to suffrage as a part and condition of reconstruction. The Republican State committee had already in July issued an Address for equal suffrage in reconstruction. New York Tribune, July 25. A similar ground was taken by the Republicans of Vermont, Iowa, and Minnesota; but generally Republican State conventions shrank from an explicit declaration. Notwithstanding the prudent reserve of politicians, there was however, during the recess of Congress, a growing conviction among the Northern people that governments at once loyal, stable, and securing the rights of all, white and black, could not be established in the rebel States without admitting the freedmen to a share in them. It was Sumner who took the lead in spreading and organizing that conviction.
Pittsfield (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
o suffrage (New York Tribune, June 14), and Morrill of Vermont spoke in favor of it before the Republican convention of that State. But on the other hand Dawes of Massachusetts, already a leader in that body, in an address to his neighbors, which was widely read, came earnestly to the support of the President's action, and contested as unconstitutional any attempt of Congress to make suffrage for the colored people a condition precedent in the restoration of the rebel States. July 4, at Pittsfield. (Springfield Republican, July 19.) This journal agreed fully with Mr. Dawes's view, and sustained President Johnson, June 12. Mr. Dawes had taken the same position in a speech in the House, Feb 20, 1865. Among public men not in Congress, journalists and other leaders of public opinion, Sumner's cause found little support. Governor Morton of Indiana denounced it before the people, and took issue directly with the senator. Julian's Political Recollections, pp. 260-268. George W. Jul
Illinois (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
igan has in charge is a reality; the measure that the senator from Illinois has in charge is a shadow. Doolittle thought it unbecoming in Sumwhich he believed to be dangerous. He counselled the senator from Illinois to look at the clock and note that it was twenty-five minutes to eion down the throats of the Senate to that of another senator from Illinois (Douglas), who brought in his Kansas-Nebraska bill in precisely thit was to pass in twenty-four hours, precisely as the senator from Illinois now speaks; and he invoked the Senate to devote the remnant of the unfounded, the ungentlemanly charges of the arrogant senator from Illinois, reminding him again of his sudden conversion to the measure. Grielations in 1871, one of his ablest defenders was the senator from Illinois; and when he left the Senate finally, Sumner parted from him with and a committee of one from each State to accompany the remains to Illinois, and resolutions, and the report was agreed to without dissent. T
Circleville, Ohio (Ohio, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
ser to make it on the right of Congress to control the reconstruction. B. Gratz Brown alone responded without qualification to Sumner's appeal. Of the members of the House, Boutwell At Weymouth, July 4. of Massachusetts, Julian Julian's Political Recollections, p. 268. of Indiana, and Garfield of Ohio, At Ravenna, O., July 4. Works of J. A. Garfield, vol. i. p. 85. each addressed the people of his State in favor of admitting freedmen to the suffrage. Sherman, speaking at Circleville, O., June 10, showed himself friendly to negro suffrage (New York Tribune, June 14), and Morrill of Vermont spoke in favor of it before the Republican convention of that State. But on the other hand Dawes of Massachusetts, already a leader in that body, in an address to his neighbors, which was widely read, came earnestly to the support of the President's action, and contested as unconstitutional any attempt of Congress to make suffrage for the colored people a condition precedent in the re
Boston (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
ion with Sumner. While at home in the summer the burden of this question was all the time on Sumner's mind. Wherever he met citizens—on the street, at club dinners, or in society—he let slip no opportunity to urge them to action. A large edition of a pamphlet, containing his article in the Atlantic Monthly, already referred to, as well as several resolutions introduced by him in Congress, and his speeches on the proceedings in Arkansas and Louisiana, was distributed among the people. In Boston there was a quick response in a meeting held June 21, 1865, to maintain equal suffrage, at which Theophilus Parsons was in the chair, and Richard H. Dana, Jr., made the principal speech. Mr. Dana, who had been Sumner's critic, now came substantially to his position. Adams's Biography of Dana, vol. II. p. 333. Authentic reports from the South were in the mean time arriving, which verified the worst apprehensions concerning the President's policy, showing that it had revived the old sl
Arkansas (Arkansas, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
tary governors for Tennessee, North Carolina, Arkansas, and Louisiana, only sections of each of whicand elections took place contemporaneously in Arkansas under the lead and direction of military offi governments already adopted and installed in Arkansas and Louisiana, or to declare a constitutionaluctions to military officers in Louisiana and Arkansas, charged by him with the proceedings for reco In view of the proceedings in Louisiana and Arkansas, and to prevent such exceptional and inconsid Kansas, to recognize the State government of Arkansas initiated under the President's direction, whn against the validity of the proceedings in Arkansas. The President, however, two days after the tee on enrolled bills. The reconstruction of Arkansas and Louisiana was debated on propositions to h had been taken in Tennessee, Louisiana, and Arkansas. The change of mind which the President ungress, and his speeches on the proceedings in Arkansas and Louisiana, was distributed among the peop[1 more...]
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