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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)
salvage property to loyal owners which had been captured by the rebels and afterwards recaptured, and giving his opinion against the policy of prize-money in any case (June 30, 1862, Works, vol. VII. pp. 148, 149); in favor of creating the rank of admiral without increased pay (July 2, 1862, vol. VII. pp. 150, 151); in favor of treating a majority of the senators elected and holding seats as a constitutional quorum without counting the vacant seats of senators from the seceded States (July 12, 1862, vol. VII. pp. 169-175; see vol. IX. pp. 489-492); in favor of the substitution of linen paper for parchment in the enrolment of bills, with a sketch of the use of parchment from early times, and a statement of the superior conveniences of paper now generally adopted in the States (May 16, Works, vol. VI. pp. 510-521; he recurred to this subject April 17, 1867, Congressional Globe, p. 849: Jan. 27, 1871, Globe, p. 775; and Feb. 20, 1874. Globe, pp. 1664-1667): against the extension i
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)
tical period any one of several senators or representatives who might be named, then leaders in those bodies, had held his place, it is fearful to contemplate the embarrassments and perils which might have come to pass in our foreign relations. Mr. Seward quite early in the Civil War became a partisan of privateering as an auxiliary force in naval operations. At his instance, Mr. Grimes, of the committee on naval affairs, though himself at the time opposed to the measure, introduced, July 12, 1862, in the Senate a bill for granting letters of marque and reprisal. At the next session he reported from the committee a bill for the purpose, and having changed his opinion in the mean time, supported it, Feb. 17, 1863, by a speech. Mr. Chase, at first unfriendly to it, now accepted it as a method of reducing the war expenses. Enterprising merchants in New York, some of whom were lacking in character and responsibility, pressed the scheme openly or covertly. Grimes saw in it a mode o
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)
ut he would not give a hearing to the ten thousand loyal men of Louisiana. Doolittle claimed that the vote of Louisiana was needed to ratify the thirteenth amendment to the Constitution; and Sumner replied that only nineteen loyal States were required to ratify it, rejecting from the whole number the States in rebellion, He maintained the same view in his letter to the New York Evening Post, Sept. 28, 185. (Works, vol. IX. pp. 489-492.) The same point was involved in his speech, July 12, 1862, on a constitutional quorum of the Senate. Works, vol. VII. pp. 169-175. at the same time charging Doolittle with again setting himself upon the side of slavery, and by his interpretation seeking to arrest the great march of human freedom. Doolittle retorted that Sumner had opposed the thirteenth amendment—a charge which the latter repelled with emphasis, declaring that he had given that measure his most ardent support. The Senate voted to take up the resolution; and Sumner moved a s