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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)
areful and candid consideration. Sumner's account may be found in his speeches, Dec. 21, 1870, Works, vol. XIV. pp. 125, 126; Congressional Globe, p. 253; March 28, 1871, Globe, App. p. 45. Letter to Speaker Blaine, Aug. 5, 1872, Works, vol. XV. p. 200. Address, Sept. 3, 1872, Ibid., p. 218. He affirmed afterwards that his re the war ships; he appears to have made that point briefly at a later day, but not in a way to provoke an issue with the Administration. Remarks in Senate, March 28, 1871. Congressional Globe, App. p. 45. The Washington Chronicle, March 26, 1870, said that he made no attack on the negotiations, and said nothing on this head, wsign rather than be a party to them; but he answered that he was the President's friend, and had taken office as such. Works, vol. XIV. p. 259. In Senate, March 28, 1871. Cong. Globe, App. p. 45. At last, two weeks before the final vote in the Senate, the secretary was at the senator's house from nine in the evening till midn
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)
made to shut him off, he obtained (Sumner and others supporting him) his right to be heard at length. A few days afterwards Cole of California spoke briefly on the other side; and this was the end of the discussion in Congress. It had been found impossible to obtain a two-thirds vote in the Senate for a treaty, or a majority vote in the House for a joint resolution. Outside of speculators and adventurers the measure had no popular support, Isaac N. Arnold wrote Sumner from Chicago, March 28, 1871: I know not one man in the Northwest in favor of this annexation scheme. and the vote it received in the Senate was due almost wholly to a desire to please the President on a matter in which his feelings were warmly enlisted. During the succeeding interval of more than twenty years there has been no attempt to revive the scheme, even among those who were its intolerant partisans in 1870-1871. The President, however, adhered to his conviction, and in his last annual message, when the se