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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 45: an antislavery policy.—the Trent case.—Theories of reconstruction.—confiscation.—the session of 1861-1862. (search)
r shall hereafter study its record will pass lightly over the personal bickerings which come up here and there in the debates, while he contemplates the grand result so creditable to its authors and so fruitful of benefit to mankind. Sumner was always interested in beneficent internal improvements, especially in those which were immediately connected with the advance of civilization. As early as 1853 he gave a God-speed to a railway from the Atlantic to the Pacific, by sending a Fourth-of-July toast to the mayor of Boston, in which he treated it as marking an epoch of human progress second only to that of the Declaration of Independence. Works, vol. III. p. 228. This enterprise was then regarded—at a period when as yet the Kansas-Nebraska question had not made the intervening territory familiar to the public mind—as visionary, or only practicable at some distant day. Ten years later, and six years before its consummation, he wrote to persons who were promoting it Ibid., vol.
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 46: qualities and habits as a senator.—1862. (search)
action decisive. Sumner's vacant chair, while he was in health, was never an obstruction to public business. Again and again, at this and at other sessions, as the official record shows, he protested against an early adjournment in the afternoon, and urged that the Senate go on with its calendar. Henderson of Missouri (May 16, 1868, Congressional Globe, p. 2494) referred to Sumner's constant votes against adjournments until after five or six P. M., and against final adjournments even in July or August, saying. If the senator had his way, he would remain here forever and ever. Edmunds said in relation to his opposition, April 17. 1869 (Globe, p. 726), I never knew the day to come when my friend from Massachusetts really thought the Senate ought to adjourn; and three days later (Globe, pp. 733, 734) he referred to Sumner's chronic difficult about adjournments. Similar pressure from Sumner, with similar resistance from other senators who recalled his uniform position on the suspe
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 48: Seward.—emancipation.—peace with France.—letters of marque and reprisal.—foreign mediation.—action on certain military appointments.—personal relations with foreigners at Washington.—letters to Bright, Cobden, and the Duchess of Argyll.—English opinion on the Civil War.—Earl Russell and Gladstone.—foreign relations.—1862-1863. (search)
rts came to no result. The final judgment upon Fremont is a distrust of his capacity for important civil or military duties. Sumner remained in Washington till July,—nearly three months after the Senate had adjourned, and long after all the members of Congress, excepting those serving on the committee on the conduct of the wars been talk of danger from the rebels, who are pretty near. I keep at my desk. Butler is here, anxious, and not finding things to his satisfaction. He wrote, July 99, to the same correspondent, who had written from Beaufort, S. C., concerning the assault on Fort Wagner by the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts (colored), led by Col.blic opinion. Adams recognized it in his letters to Seward, May 7 and June 5, without, however, mentioning the cause. The victories of Vicksburg and Gettysburg in July confirmed this direction of public opinion. Two English statesmen, members of the Cabinet,—Earl Russell (Foreign Secretary) and Gladstone (Chancellor of the Exc
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 50: last months 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.—the president's death by assassination.—Sumner's eulogy upon him. —President Johnson; his method of reconstruction.—Sumner's protests against race distinctions.—death of friends. —French visitors and correspondents.—1864-1865. (search)
Blaine's Twenty Years of Congress, vol. II. pp. 63, 67, 68, 83. 108. Carl Schurz, to whom the President showed his proclamation for North Carolina before it was issued, urged him to modify it so as to include the colored people as voters. In July General Schurz visited, by commission from the President, the Southern States to examine their condition; but when he returned in October he was received by the President without welcome, hardly with civility. His report is an important historicaople 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. Not
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 51: reconstruction under Johnson's policy.—the fourteenth amendment to the constitution.—defeat of equal suffrage for the District of Columbia, and for Colorado, Nebraska, and Tennessee.—fundamental conditions.— proposed trial of Jefferson Davis.—the neutrality acts. —Stockton's claim as a senator.—tributes to public men. —consolidation of the statutes.—excessive labor.— address on Johnson's Policy.—his mother's death.—his marriage.—1865-1866. (search)
at Sumner's expense, saying that his conscientious friend mistook twinges of dyspepsia for constitutional scruples; and Sumner replied that he had never had the dyspepsia in his life. Wade thought that Sumner had a certain one idea that covered the whole ground. The bill not receiving the President's signature failed to become a law; and the fundamental condition, which was lost at this session, was to be carried at the next, the bill containing it being passed over the President's veto. July 27, Dec. 14 and 19, 1866; Jan. 8, 1867; Works, vol. x. pp. 504-523. When the bill first passed the House, July 27, 1866, Kelley of Pennsylvania objected to the exclusion of colored men from the suffrage, and among the minority who voted against the bill were distinguished Republicans—Allison, Boutwell, Eliot, Garfield, Jenckes, Julian, Morrill, Stevens, and E. B. Washburne. Sumner likewise failed to impose his fundamental condition of equal suffrage on Tennessee, one of the reconstructed
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)
s without the consent of the Senate, or the recommendation of the commanding general, instancing Sheridan as likely to be removed from Louisiana. （July 19; Works, vol. XI. p. 424.) The President, as the bill was not acted upon, removed Sheridan ten days later. While at home, in June, he attended a municipal festival at Arlington, formerly West Cambridge, where he spoke briefly on the historical associations of the place. June 17, 1867; Works, vol. XI. pp. 361-364. At the session in July the Republican senators, in a caucus, agreed to limit the business of legislation to the removal of obstructions to the execution of the acts of reconstruction; and this agreement was carried out by the adoption of a rule to that effect in the Senate. Sumner, believing that legislation for the protection of the freed men and on other subjects was imperatively required, resisted the passage of the rule; and when reminded of caucus obligations, he maintained that senators were to look to the C
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, chapter 10 (search)
e senator's death, in 1874. Pictures of some of them may he found in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, April 22, 1871, March 28, 1874, and in harper's Weekly. April 4, 1874. The interior of the house, the pictures, rare books, and autographs, as well as Sumner's manners and style of living and conversation, have been often described. Recollections of Charles Sumner, by A. B. Johnson, Scribner's Magazine. August, 1874, pp. 475– 490; November, 1874. pp. 101-114; June, 1875, pp. 224-229; July. 1875, pp. 297-304; J. W. Forney's Anecdotes of Public Men, vol. II. pp. 259, 260; Christian Union, April 1, 1874, Springfield Republican, March 17, 1874, by Miss A. L. Dawes (Haigha); Philadelphia Press, Sept. 5, 1871, by Mrs. A. L. Howard; New York Independent, June 1, 1871, and March 26, 1874, and Outlines of Men, Women, and Things, pp. 43-45, by Mrs. M C. Ames; New York World, Dec. 11. 1869: Boston Journal, March 23, 1874, by B. P. Poore; Boston Commonwealth, April 4.1868, by C. W. Slack
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 55: Fessenden's death.—the public debt.—reduction of postage.— Mrs. Lincoln's pension.—end of reconstruction.—race discriminations in naturalization.—the Chinese.—the senator's record.—the Cuban Civil War.—annexation of San Domingo.—the treaties.—their use of the navy.—interview with the presedent.—opposition to the annexation; its defeat.—Mr. Fish.—removal of Motley.—lecture on Franco-Prussian War.—1869-1870. (search)
Secretary of the Navy, the President's desire to have a man-of-war ordered to visit the several ports of the Dominican republic, and to report upon the condition of affairs in that quarter, with the addition: It is also important that we should have full and accurate information in regard to the views of the Dominican people of all parties in regard to annexation to the country, or the sale or lease of the Bay of Samana, or of territory adjacent thereto. The President despatched Babcock in July, under instructions dated the 13th, and signed by Mr. Fish, which so far as printed limited his errand to one of full inquiry into the population and resources of the island, and other like points. But while directions for inquiry only appeared on Mr. Fish's papers, Robeson was issuing orders which contemplated force. On the 13th, the day the instructions were dated, he ordered one war vessel to give Babcock not only every attention and facility in the execution of his present duty, but al
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 56: San Domingo again.—the senator's first speech.—return of the angina pectoris.—Fish's insult in the Motley Papers.— the senator's removal from the foreign relations committee.—pretexts for the remioval.—second speech against the San Domingo scheme.—the treaty of Washington.—Sumner and Wilson against Butler for governor.—1870-1871. (search)
er would he. Nevertheless, Sumner's friends having procured the removal of the seal of secrecy, it appeared that the senator had reported all but one of the treaties, reporting the eight with remarkable promptness, keeping five of them only about a month, and one of them only a single day; and the one unreported had been with the committee but three months, and was held back presumably for good reasons. E. L. Pierce in the Boston Transcript, Nov. 28, 1877, and in the North American Review, July-August, 1878, pp. 61-80. See Appendix. He was busy with its work to the last, reporting two treaties March 1, two days before his connection with it ended. Yet, after this disclosure and vindication, Mr. Fish did not regard it a ditty to recall his libel on a dead man. His gravest charge being thus shown by the record to have been false, all other charges and insinuations against the senator dependent on his testimony, whether coming directly from him or prompted by him, deserve no credit.
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 58: the battle-flag resolution.—the censure by the Massachusetts Legislature.—the return of the angina pectoris. —absence from the senate.—proofs of popular favor.— last meetings with friends and constituents.—the Virginius case.—European friends recalled.—1872-1873. (search)
tic or unjust to the soldier. It revealed the hold which he still retained on the people of the State. Those who resisted the removal of the censure were driven to stand on apologetic and technical rather than on substantial grounds; and there was a general sentiment to the effect that while what had been done could not well be undone, it would not now be attempted if no action had been taken. The fruit of the agitation was to be postponed for only a few months. The Boston Commonwealth, July 25, August 1 and 8, 1874, contains an historical statement,—Charles Sumner and the Battle Flags, by E. L. Pierce, which gives in detail what the text attempts to give only in substance. Sumner felt keenly the legislative censure,—far more so than he would have felt it when younger and stronger. Longfellow wrote in his diary, Christmas, 1872: Carl Schurz came to see me yesterday, and staved to dinner. He said a good deal about Sumner, and thinks he feels keenly the action of the Massachuse
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