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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 46: qualities and habits as a senator.—1862. (search)
rned other than by love of country. He was one of the boldest and most generous supporters of every progressive measure; and yet nobody ever charged that he or any of his friends had any connection with the legislation he advocated. Senator Pratt said, April 27. 1874: No lobbyist ever approached him with doubtful prepositions. No one could count upon his vote unless the measure was one which commanded his approbation from his sense of its justice and fitness. See National Republican, Feb. 18, 1872. What Bright did for England Sumner did for the United States,—each insisting always on the supremacy of the moral sentiments in government and the intercourse of nations, and each leaving a character stamped ineffaceably on the civilization of the English-speaking race. It was thought that the senator's ideal side was too greatly developed to allow the working of the executive faculties in legislation. There is an indisposition to admit various capacities in the same person. Est m
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 57: attempts to reconcile the President and the senator.—ineligibility of the President for a second term.—the Civil-rights Bill.—sale of arms to France.—the liberal Republican party: Horace Greeley its candidate adopted by the Democrats.—Sumner's reserve.—his relations with Republican friends and his colleague.—speech against the President.—support of Greeley.—last journey to Europe.—a meeting with Motley.—a night with John Bright.—the President's re-election.—1871-1872. (search)
nt strictly to its duty of observing the obligations of neutrality, and all the more so at this time when our case was pending against Great Britain. Accordingly he moved, February 12, resolutions of inquiry into the sale of arms to France, introduced by a preamble alleging the grounds of suspicion as they appeared. Two days later, without incriminating any one, he stated the reasons which called for an investigation. Congressional Globe, pp. 1008-1017. The Washington Capital wrote, Feb. 18, 1872: There is no disguising the fact that Sumner wrong is more a subject of admiration in the Senate galleries than any other senator right, and that even his enemies admire him. The editor (Donn Piatt), from his peculiar standpoint, gives an estimate of the senator altogether favorable, offsetting only want of tact against vast and varied resources, readiness as a debater, and perfect integrity. The inquiry was a surprise to most of the senators, and it arrested at once the attention of Co