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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4 7 7 Browse Search
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874. 2 2 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1 1 Browse Search
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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)
ent Grant, J. Russell Young (Around the World with General Grant, vol. II. pp. 279, 280) reports General Grant as stating that he consented, against his belief, to the inclusion of the indirect claims in the American Case,—doing so at Mr. Fish's request, who thought it necessary to consider Mr. Sumner, then at the head of the committee on foreign relations. If General Grant talked, as he is reported, he committed an anachronism, as the senator ceased to be a member of that committee March 10. 1871. two months even before the treaty was made. The Case was handed to the secretary November 13, eight months after Sumner ceased to be chairman of the foreign relations committee. The next day Mr. Fish wrote to Davis, The President approves of your presentation of the Case. It was not presented to the arbitrators till December 15. the respective dates of the termination of Sumner's connection with the committee and, of the preparation and filing of the Case make it clear that General
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)
onsent, and, Wilson coming to his aid, was able to keep the committee as before. The fact that the change was agitated found its way into the public journals and the debates in the Senate. Dec. 21, 1870, Congressional Globe, pp. 230, 241; March 10, 1871. Globe, pp. 39, 42, 47; New York Herald, Dec. 9, 1870; New York Evening Post, December 29. The President in his message had asked for a commission to negotiate a treaty with the authorities of San Domingo for the acquisition of that islaen their opinions were requested, all cordially testified to Sumner's remarkable fidelity to public business, particularly that of his committee, at all its stages. (5) Neglect of duty, if it had existed, would have been charged in the Senate March 10, 1871, when Sumner's adversaries were hard pressed for reasons justifying their action. IV. The three preceding pretexts failing, it was at last claimed that Sumner was an expected obstacle to the negotiations for the Treaty of washington; and
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, chapter 19 (search)
action upon them. No such intimation was made in the caucus or in the Senate when Mr. Sumner's removal was debated, March 10, 1871; nor by President Grant, when giving reasons for it in the summer of 1871; nor by Mr. Conkling, July 23, 1872, when ao insert them here. Senator Sherman of Ohio, now Secretary of the Treasury, in the debate on Mr. Sumner's removal, March 10, 1871, while considering himself bound by the action of the caucus, declared the change unjustifiable, impolitic, and unnectween the secretary and the senator was assigned as the cause of the removal by its advocates in the Senate debate of March 10, 1871. But it was shown at the time that Mr. Sumner was always ready to confer freely with Mr. Fish on public business, anurd. No such reason was given at the time of the removal, either in the caucus on March 9, 1871, or in the Senate on March 10, 1871, or in the public journals of the time. The non-speaking reason, and that alone, was insisted on by senators who adv