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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4 3 3 Browse Search
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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 grief found vent in tears. Already before the fifteenth amendment was seriously contemplated, Sumner was endeavoring to bring to pass equality of suffrage in all the States, whether ever engaged in the rebellion or not; In the Senate, July 12, 1867; Works, vol. XI. pp. 409-413. Dec. 11, 1867; March 9 and 20. 1868: Congressional Globe, pp. 123, 1742, 1743, 2007. Letters, Sept. 8, 1867, and Oct. 3, 1868; Works, vol. XII. pp. 184. 515, 516. and he desired also the election of colored meemigrants stood in the way of this measure. See debate in the Senate, Feb. 9. 1869, Congressional Globe, pp. 1031-1035. He sought to establish equal suffrage in all the States by statute, but the restrictive rule set out its consideration July 12, 1867; Works, vol. XI. pp. 409-413. He advised a popular agitation for this measure. Letter to the New York Independent, May 2, 1867. Works, vol. XI. pp. 356-360. Immediately after, Conkling, a partisan of the rule, endeavored to introduce a re
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, chapter 10 (search)
ublic life. His last interference in politics was after the election of 1884, when he received a large fee as counsel for Mr. Cleveland's supporters on the count of the electoral vote of New York against his old antagonist in the House, Mr. Blaine. Conkling was antipathetic to Sumner, as any one who knew the two men might expect he would be. He had sat in the Senate scarcely thirty days before he made some offensive remarks concerning Sumner, to which the latter paid no attention. July 12, 1867, Congressional Globe, p. 611. At the next session, in June, 1868, he returned to the same kind of treatment, when the question was one of a mere order of business or some clerical provision for the state department, and set upon Sumner very much in the style of a terrier. June 17, 22, and 23, 1868, Congressional Globe, pp. 3249, 3358, 3360, 3391-3394. Sumner at first ignored the malice; but Conkling was not to be put aside in that way, and kept up his hectoring from day to day. In put