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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)
of the Senate. After opposition in the committee, which he was finally able to overcome, he reported, February 4, a bill authorizing the diplomatic representation of our government to those republics, and spoke at length in its favor,—describing the two countries, their history and productions, and maintained their title to recognition. Works, vol. VI. pp. 445-473. Sumner was instructed on Haytian affairs by Benjamin C. Clark, a Boston merchant, consul of Hayti at that port, who died in 1863. The senator received many letters from him during this session. The senator's hearty satisfaction with the passage of this measure is mentioned in Dr. William Hague's Life Notes of Fifty Years, p. 165. The bill passed by a large majority. Its chief opponent was Garrett Davis of Kentucky, Sumner's antagonist in such debates, who expressed his disgust at the constant recurrence of the slavery question, and who could imagine no sight so dreadful as that of a fullblooded negro in Washington s
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)
of Argyll.—English opinion on the Civil War.—Earl Russell and Gladstone.—foreign relations.—1862-1863. The third session of the Thirty-seventh Congress began Dec. 1, 1862, and ended March 3, 1863.f South Carolina forfeited for taxes, with reference to the interests of freedmen, Jan. 9 and 26, 1863 (Globe, pp. 245, 507, 508); the bill to punish correspondence by American citizens resident abroablic mails found on private vessels violating the blockade,—which was under consideration in 1862-1863, Mr. Welles mentions (p. 90) the great confidence President Lincoln had in Sumner's superior inte occurred at this time. Col. T. G. Stevenson, of Boston, when serving in South Carolina early in 1863, expressed a passionate opinion against the policy of arming negroes, and his own unwillingness tginia, Sept. 1, 1862, and Stevenson at Spottsylvania, May 10, 1864. Antislavery people were in 1863 anxious to have General Fremont called from retirement and put in command of a large body of c
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 49: letters to Europe.—test oath in the senate.—final repeal of the fugitive-slave act.—abolition of the coastwise slave-trade.—Freedmen's Bureau.—equal rights of the colored people as witnesses and passengers.—equal pay of colored troops.—first struggle for suffrage of the colored people.—thirteenth amendment of the constitution.— French spoliation claims.—taxation of national banks.— differences with Fessenden.—Civil service Reform.—Lincoln's re-election.—parting with friends.—1863-1864. (search)
onstitution.— French spoliation claims.—taxation of national banks.— differences with Fessenden.—Civil service Reform.—Lincoln's re-election.—parting with friends.—1863-1864. The following extracts are given from letters written by Sumner early in the session which began in December, 1863:— To Mr. Bright, December 15:— here was a lack of enthusiasm for Mr. Lincoln, and a distrust of his fitness for his place among public men who were associated with him. Visitors to Washington in 1863-1864 were struck with the want of personal loyalty to him. Adams's Biography of Dana, vol. II. pp. 264, 265, 271, 274; Godwin's Life of W. C. Bryant, vol. II.four years of failure, and called for a cessation of hostilities. Sumner shared in the opinion of Mr. Lincoln's limitations, which was common with public men in 1863-1864; but he took no part in the plans for putting another candidate in his stead. In correspondence he referred to the subject but slightly and incide
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)
s. The monopoly sheltered itself behind State rights; it had at its command ample capital, and could always enlist able lawyers in the Senate, at the head of whom was Reverdy Johnson. The power of Congress to regulate commerce between the States, since greatly developed, was then latent and untried. Nevertheless, Sumner was determined to make the issue, without calculating closely the chances of success. He called attention to the obstruction of travel and trade by resolutions in 1862 and 1863, and introduced in 1864 a resolution authorizing any railway company to carry the government's supplies and troops from State to State. Before it could be reached in the Senate, a bill of similar purport passed the House; but he could not, against the obstruction of interested parties, get his resolution or the House bill before the Senate. Horace Greeley in a letter to Sumner, June 26, 1864, approved this effort, and wished the bill pressed in the Senate; and a similar testimony came fro
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, chapter 10 (search)
e in 1873, or any constituent who happened to be in Washington. Sumner had most cordial relations with his secretaries; they were clerks of the foreign relations committee while he was chairman, being, according to the practice, designated by him. As early as 1855, A. B. Johnson assisted him in clerical and kindred services, and though engaged afterwards in professional or official work, came to his aid at intervals and was a devoted friend to the end. Other secretaries in succession, from 1863 to 1872, were Francis V. Balch, Charles C. Beaman, Moorfield Storey, and Edward J. Holmes, all graduates of Harvard College. The last, son of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, died in 1881; the other three hold an honorable place in the legal profession. Sumner's interest in them was personal and affectionate. He gave always a welcome to Johnson, and from time to time remembered his children with gifts. When Balch resigned to enter on his profession, the senator made him the custodian and manage
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 54: President Grant's cabinet.—A. T. Stewart's disability.—Mr. Fish, Secretary of State.—Motley, minister to England.—the Alabama claims.—the Johnson-Clarendon convention.— the senator's speech: its reception in this country and in England.—the British proclamation of belligerency.— national claims.—instructions to Motley.—consultations with Fish.—political address in the autumn.— lecture on caste.—1869. (search)
intaining pacific relations with Great Britain, and preventing measures likely to produce irritation,—as in his speech in 1862 on the Trent case; his opposition in 1863 to letters of marque and reprisal; his resistance in 1864 to the attempt to embroil us with that country on account of the St. Albans raid; his defeat of the atteme Confederates had no ports from which their ships could issue, and no courts before which their prizes could be brought. A repetition in 1869 of what was said in 1863 could be no surprise. Sumner's positions in his speech, April 13, 1869, were in conformity with the American contention from the beginning of the controversy toms contended in this list cited letter against the right of the Confederates to be recognized as belligerents on the ocean, on the same grounds that Sumner took in 1863, and later in 1869. they a-firmed it to be the first unfriendly or wrongful proceeding of which they [losses by the depredations] are but the consequences, . . .a