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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, chapter 10 (search)
preceded the assault in 1856, extended to great length. The edition was to be comprised in ten volumes, one or two of which were to be reserved for a biography to be prepared by another; but the notes and later speeches lengthened it to fifteen, even without a biography. The senator was assisted in verbal criticisims and verifying references by an accomplished proof-reader, George Nichols, of Cambridge. The printing began in July, 1869; and the first volume, beginning with the oration (July 4, 1845) on The True Grandeur of Nations, came out in May, 1870. Ten volumes were printed under the author's eye, At the time of his death he had read and returned the proof as far as page 467 of Vol. X. and he supplied notes for the eleventh; but with the exception of the Prophetic Voices concerning America, which at the time of his death he was enlarging for a separate publication, it fell to his literary executors to complete the enterprise, with the assistance of proof-readers, acting un
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)
between France and Germany, with its Lesson to Civilization. (Works, vol. XIV. pp. 9-85.) The lecture was the 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 Heral