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Montana (Montana, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
ingo. So untutored was he at the time in civil business that he addressed the senator several times as chairman of the judiciary committee, saying that as they were to come before that committee, he wished to speak with the senator concerning them. Sumner, partly to divert attention from the treaties (as to which he did not care to commit himself in advance), and partly to take advantage of an opportunity to say a word for his friend J. M. Ashley, recently removed from the governorship of Montana, turned the conversation to Ashley's case. After this interruption, the President recurred to the treaties, but gave no definite idea as to what they were, the senator even supposing that they might provide only for a protectorate in the Gulf, always a favorite idea of his own. In the Senate, Dec. 21, 1870; Congressional Globe, p. 253. New York Tribune, April 5, 1871. The interview closed by his saying: Mr. President, I am an Administration man, and whatever you do will always find in
Mayaguez (search for this): chapter 12
who was hovering on the Haytian frontier; his treasury was empty, and he lived in constant dread of being driven away,—a fate which befell him twice afterwards. A temporary ruler, with so precarious an authority, was incompetent to contract for the sale of his country; Baez's tenure continued to be uncertain. He was overthrown early in 1874 by Gonzales, and came to the United States; he was recalled In 1876, and again driven out in 1878. From that time he lived in retirement in Mayaguez, Porto Rico, where he died in 1884. Cabral retired to his home in San Juan, province of Azua, and was living there in 1889. It is difficult to obtain trustworthy accounts of the recent history of San Domingo, but the best is found in the Boston Transcript, Aug. 12, 1889, written by an American resident in the island. and the inhabitants were in too distracted a condition to express their genuine wishes. The national spirit was at all times against a sale, and the revival of the project led to
Kellogg (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
Va.), McCreery (Ky.), Morrill (me.), Morrill (Vt), Patterson (N. H.), Pool (N. C.), Robertson (S. C.), Ross (Kan.), Saulsbury (Del.), Sawyer (S. C.), Schurz (Mo.). Scott (Penn.), Sprague (R. I.), Stockton (N. J.), Sumner (Mass.), Thurman (O.), Tipton (Neb.), Vickers (Md.), Willey (W. Va.). Pairs for the treaty,—Ames (Miss.), Anthony (R. I.), Carpenter (Wis.), Gilbert (Fla.), Hamilton (Tex.), Howe (Wis.), and Pomeroy (Kan.). Pairs against the treaty,--Banyard (Del.). Buckinghamn (Conn.), Kellogg (La.), and Yates (111.). Sherman, though in his seat, did not vote. The Senate records might show a slight variation from the above lists. The composition of the Senate was such at this time and for four years after that it was open to Executive pressure as at no other period of our history. The Administration majority was still large. The Southern States were represented to a great extent by Northern men who were sojourning in them temporarily for what they could make, or by Southern men w
New Jersey (New Jersey, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
(Miss.), Rice (Ark.), Spencer (Ala.), Stewart (Nev.), Thiayer (Neb.), Warner (Ala.), Williams (Oregon), Wilson (Mass.). Against the treaty,—Boreman (W. Va.), Casserly) (Cal.), Cragin (N. H.), Davis (Ky.), Edmunds (Vt.), Ferry (Conn.), Fowler (Tenn.), Hamilton (Md.), Harris (La.), Johnston (Va.), McCreery (Ky.), Morrill (me.), Morrill (Vt), Patterson (N. H.), Pool (N. C.), Robertson (S. C.), Ross (Kan.), Saulsbury (Del.), Sawyer (S. C.), Schurz (Mo.). Scott (Penn.), Sprague (R. I.), Stockton (N. J.), Sumner (Mass.), Thurman (O.), Tipton (Neb.), Vickers (Md.), Willey (W. Va.). Pairs for the treaty,—Ames (Miss.), Anthony (R. I.), Carpenter (Wis.), Gilbert (Fla.), Hamilton (Tex.), Howe (Wis.), and Pomeroy (Kan.). Pairs against the treaty,--Banyard (Del.). Buckinghamn (Conn.), Kellogg (La.), and Yates (111.). Sherman, though in his seat, did not vote. The Senate records might show a slight variation from the above lists. The composition of the Senate was such at this time and for four ye
Cotuit (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
lity as a friend. As usual in the summer Sumner passed some days with Longfellow at Nahant; Sumner lying all the morning in a hammock reading Lothair. Dine with him and T. at George James's. （Longfellow's Journal, August 1.) Longfellow's letter of July 18 welcomed him to the sea-shore, and said of Motley's removal, It is a gross insult to him, and a very disreputable act to all concerned in it. and he made a brief visit to a friend in Beverly. In September he was Mr. Hooper's guest at Cotuit. He had promised a visit to the poet Bryant at Cummington, but the burden of a lecture on his mind compelled him to forego it. He was glad to greet Bemis, fresh from foreign journeys. It always pleased him to meet in Boston his associates in the Senate of either party; and this summer he was able to take Mr. Hendricks of Indiana to the interesting points of the city. Sumner took the chair at a Republican meeting in Faneuil Hall, October 15, to ratify nominations for members of Congress
Peterboro (New Hampshire, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
e subject of a review, by M. Chevalier, in the Journal des Debats. The address pointed as its moral that the war-system should be discarded, and the nations should disarm themselves. The New York Herald, Dec. 2, 1870, took exception to the idealism of the lecture. In 1870 he was still enforcing the truths which he announced twenty-five years before, in his celebrated oration of July 4, 1845. On his route he enjoyed the hospitality of friends,—of Judge Harris at Albany, Gerrit Smith at Peterborough, and Senator Fenton at Jamestown. While at a hotel in Chicago, during a call from Mr. Arnold, biographer of Lincoln, a newspaper reporter, without disclosing his purpose, happened to be present, and the next day gave to a journal of the city what purported to be an account of Sumner's conversation on the President and on Motley. Chicago Republican, November 19; New York Herald, November 21; Boston Journal, December 5. The senator read it with great regret, and repudiated it as a whol
Nahant (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
expression, and warmly seized my hand in friendship, as he expressed himself, in order to remove the impression of his quick word. Nor up to this time had Mr. Fish done aught inconsistent with his friendship for the senator. His weak compliance with a scheme to which, unless he is misjudged, he was opposed stands to his discredit as a public man; but it does not up to this time impeach his honor and fidelity as a friend. As usual in the summer Sumner passed some days with Longfellow at Nahant; Sumner lying all the morning in a hammock reading Lothair. Dine with him and T. at George James's. （Longfellow's Journal, August 1.) Longfellow's letter of July 18 welcomed him to the sea-shore, and said of Motley's removal, It is a gross insult to him, and a very disreputable act to all concerned in it. and he made a brief visit to a friend in Beverly. In September he was Mr. Hooper's guest at Cotuit. He had promised a visit to the poet Bryant at Cummington, but the burden of a lectur
Delaware (Delaware, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
al.), Cragin (N. H.), Davis (Ky.), Edmunds (Vt.), Ferry (Conn.), Fowler (Tenn.), Hamilton (Md.), Harris (La.), Johnston (Va.), McCreery (Ky.), Morrill (me.), Morrill (Vt), Patterson (N. H.), Pool (N. C.), Robertson (S. C.), Ross (Kan.), Saulsbury (Del.), Sawyer (S. C.), Schurz (Mo.). Scott (Penn.), Sprague (R. I.), Stockton (N. J.), Sumner (Mass.), Thurman (O.), Tipton (Neb.), Vickers (Md.), Willey (W. Va.). Pairs for the treaty,—Ames (Miss.), Anthony (R. I.), Carpenter (Wis.), Gilbert (Fla.), Hamilton (Tex.), Howe (Wis.), and Pomeroy (Kan.). Pairs against the treaty,--Banyard (Del.). Buckinghamn (Conn.), Kellogg (La.), and Yates (111.). Sherman, though in his seat, did not vote. The Senate records might show a slight variation from the above lists. The composition of the Senate was such at this time and for four years after that it was open to Executive pressure as at no other period of our history. The Administration majority was still large. The Southern States were represented
Hartford (Connecticut, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
e of impairing the predominance of the colored race in the West Indies. To the African, he is reported to have said, belongs the equatorial belt, and he should enjoy it undisturbed. Caleb Cushing wrote, March 25:— You must be gratified to find that all the journals commend your speech on Dominica, especially seeing that these outside opinions are, of course, but the echo of the judgments of senators. J. R. Hawley, late governor of Connecticut, and afterwards senator, wrote from Hartford, March 23:— What little I see concerning your speech on San Domingo greatly pleases me. The course of the government for several years in these matters is demoralizing and dangerous. I would not have an Administration negotiate an acquisition in time of peace without the previous consent of Congress. We don't want any of those islands just yet, with their mongrel, cut-throat races and foreign languages and religion. Sumner completed his speech on the second day, and was followe
Illinois (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
ks, vol. XIV. pp. 1-5. Immediately after the meeting he started on a lecturing tour, which filled the interval until the session in December. After the labors and vexations of the last session, almost any one else would have insisted on repose; but he was anxious to meet expenses in Washington without incurring debt or diminishing his capital. He appeared thirty-eight times before audiences in the States of Massachusetts, Rode Island, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Illinois. He spoke twice in each of the three cities,—Philadelphia, Brooklyn, and Chicago. His fees ranged from two hundred dollars to four hundred dollars an evenining, and the net result above expenses exceeded seven thousand dollars. He used sometimes, with his audiences, his address on Lafayette, which he had delivered ten years before; but generally he gave a lecture prepared in the autumn on the war between France and Prussia, in which he treated the opening events, and passed a heavy judgme
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