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Jacksonville, Ill. (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 9
far north as Milwaukee. The appointments which he filled were as follows: Pontiac, Mich., October 7; Grand Rapids, October 8; Lansing, October 9; Detroit, October 10; Ann Arbor, October 11; Battle Creek, October 12: Milwaukee, Wis., October 14; Ripon, October 15; Janesville, October 16; Belvidere, Ill.. October 17; Rockford, October 18; Dubuque, la., October 19; Bloomington, Il., October 21; Peoria, October 22: Galesburg, October 25; Chicago, October 29; St. Louis, Mo., November 1; Jacksonville, Ill., November 2; Quincy, November 4. Aurora, November 5; La Porte, Ind., November 6: Toledo, O., November 7. A severe cold, accompanied with hoarseness and exhaustion, obliged him to give up his engagements in Iowa (except at Dubuque), and to rest a few days in Chicago. At Dubuque his welcome was from Hon. William B. Allison, then a member of the House, and since for a long period a senator, who made the arrangements for the lecture at that place. During the day of his last appointment,
Hartford (Connecticut, United States) (search for this): chapter 9
28, Globe, pp. 1899, 1911. Sumner had at the time they were made in 1865 protested, in correspondence with the secretary, against his setting aside legal prohibitions on the plea of convenience or necessity. The disqualified persons were, however, kept in office, and Fessenden reported a bill for paying them, which passed the Senate, but was lost in the House. Sumner's opposition to the bill provoked Fessenden to some bitter reflections, of which Gillette, formerly a senator, wrote from Hartford: I have just read with unutterable disgust Mr. Fessenden's gross and wanton outrage upon you. . . . I congratulate you upon the dignity of your noble bearing under so great provocation. After this session Sumner had no reason to complain of Fessenden, and they came better to understand each other. Three years later the compensation was voted, notwithstanding Sumner's persevering opposition. July 12, 1870, Congressional Globe, pp. 5497, 5502, 5508. When the heats of the contest had pas
Laporte (Indiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 9
Rockford, October 18; Dubuque, la., October 19; Bloomington, Il., October 21; Peoria, October 22: Galesburg, October 25; Chicago, October 29; St. Louis, Mo., November 1; Jacksonville, Ill., November 2; Quincy, November 4. Aurora, November 5; La Porte, Ind., November 6: Toledo, O., November 7. A severe cold, accompanied with hoarseness and exhaustion, obliged him to give up his engagements in Iowa (except at Dubuque), and to rest a few days in Chicago. At Dubuque his welcome was from Hon. William B. Allison, then a member of the House, and since for a long period a senator, who made the arrangements for the lecture at that place. During the day of his last appointment, at Elkhart, a station between La Porte and Toledo, he met with an accident while stepping from a train in motion, without knowing that it had started. He fell prostrate, and was for some minutes insensible; and a worse fate might have befallen him but for a stiff hat, which in a measure lessened the shock. Though bru
Maine (Maine, United States) (search for this): chapter 9
iple of equal suffrage, irrespective of race, Works, vol. x. pp. 8, 9.—first establishing it in the District of Columbia. Sumner urged the consideration of the bill on the first day of the session. It came up on December 10, when Morrill of Maine, who had charge of it, opened the debate. It passed after four days debate by a vote of thirty-two to thirteen, Sumner speaking for it on the 13th. Works, vol. XI. pp. 48-51. The next day it passed the House, and Jan. 7, 1867, became a law, s at once, and sought to defeat it by personal appeals to members of the House. His action in this respect led to an acrimonious debate in the Senate, in which Wade took him severely to task; and Conness also made reflections on the senator from Maine. （Feb. 19, 1867, Congressional Globe, pp. 1555-1560.) The griefs of this debate were thought to have had an effect on the impeachment trial of the next year. Sherman, hitherto averse to it, maintained it in the Senate. The bill passed after a n
Trajectum (Netherlands) (search for this): chapter 9
wrote. Reading it carefully, I have finished it to-day. This is your opus magnum. I do not think you can have any answer. Perhaps the first impression from it is its thoroughness; you seem to take up everything. My next impression is the high and just tone which you adopt, especially in the suggestions at the close. When you propose to reform our practice about transports, do you consider that every such transport by admitted law is liable to seizure and condemnation? By the treaty of Utrecht neutral slips were not allowed to carry soldiers, and this exception has been continued in our treaties. I have had at heart for years a revision of maritime international law,—indeed, of the whole code. If our domestic questions ever give me leisure, I shall take this up next. Again, December 24:— Sir Frederick Bruce has been to see me several times on the present relations with our country. He tells me that he has left with Mr. Seward informally, for his perusal, without givi
Aurora, Ill. (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 9
ich he filled were as follows: Pontiac, Mich., October 7; Grand Rapids, October 8; Lansing, October 9; Detroit, October 10; Ann Arbor, October 11; Battle Creek, October 12: Milwaukee, Wis., October 14; Ripon, October 15; Janesville, October 16; Belvidere, Ill.. October 17; Rockford, October 18; Dubuque, la., October 19; Bloomington, Il., October 21; Peoria, October 22: Galesburg, October 25; Chicago, October 29; St. Louis, Mo., November 1; Jacksonville, Ill., November 2; Quincy, November 4. Aurora, November 5; La Porte, Ind., November 6: Toledo, O., November 7. A severe cold, accompanied with hoarseness and exhaustion, obliged him to give up his engagements in Iowa (except at Dubuque), and to rest a few days in Chicago. At Dubuque his welcome was from Hon. William B. Allison, then a member of the House, and since for a long period a senator, who made the arrangements for the lecture at that place. During the day of his last appointment, at Elkhart, a station between La Porte and Tol
Passy (France) (search for this): chapter 9
imate of the senator's discretion and influence, and his confidence in his kindly sentiments, by soliciting his friendly intervention in the embarrassed relations between Prussia and Denmark. The treaty then slept a long sleep, from which it has never waked. The unhappy negotiator, Raasloff, went out of office with his ministry, which was discredited by the failure, and leaving his country, soured with disappointment, passed the remainder of his life in France, Italy, and Germany, dying at Passy in 1883. Later Administrations have not been tempted to renew a negotiation which in Mr. Seward's hands proved to be a diplomatic fiasco. In Scribner's Magazine, November, 1887 (pp. 587-602), a lady, not of kin to Mr. Seward, but adopting his name, published an article entitled A Diplomatic Episode, full of insinuations which had no basis of fact, and of untrue statements as to the action of the Senate and of its committee, as shown by the records and Raasloff's own letters. The article
Saint Thomas (search for this): chapter 9
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
Pontiac (Michigan, United States) (search for this): chapter 9
9. The journey, beginning the first week of October, occupied that month and the first week of the next,—a time when the thought of his domestic calamity, which had just become known to the public, was pressing on his mind. He spoke first at Pontiac, Mich., where he mentioned, as he began, that just as he left home a friend had put in his hand Tocqueville's A Fortnight in the Wilderness,—an account of the Frenchman's visit to Pontiac in 1831, whither he had gone to find the limits of civilizati recalled the strangers whose coming was a mystery. Beaumont was probably with Tocqueville. His lecturing tour extended as far west as St. Louis and Dubuque, and as far north as Milwaukee. The appointments which he filled were as follows: Pontiac, Mich., October 7; Grand Rapids, October 8; Lansing, October 9; Detroit, October 10; Ann Arbor, October 11; Battle Creek, October 12: Milwaukee, Wis., October 14; Ripon, October 15; Janesville, October 16; Belvidere, Ill.. October 17; Rockford, Octo
Preussen (search for this): chapter 9
ly formal; no questions are discussed between us, and no negotiation is opened. Lord Russell's refusal of our offer in the Alabama case is the reason. I should like to put an end to this abnormal condition if possible. There are claims of Prussia, which my excellent friend Baron Gerolt is pushing with ardor. He hoped to sign a convention for a joint commission; but Mr. Seward retreated after the convention had been drawn up and ready for signature. The baron feels sore; the secretary shis good offices in securing for it fair treatment. he also showed his estimate of the senator's discretion and influence, and his confidence in his kindly sentiments, by soliciting his friendly intervention in the embarrassed relations between Prussia and Denmark. The treaty then slept a long sleep, from which it has never waked. The unhappy negotiator, Raasloff, went out of office with his ministry, which was discredited by the failure, and leaving his country, soured with disappointment,
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