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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)
of peace, and for the promotion of justice and good-will. the British minister communicated to his government the fact that the speech had been received with vehement applause by the whole of the Republican press; but there was no division growing out of political differences. Sumner stood then as the representative of American sentiment as rarely any statesman has stood. It was remarked at a later period that this was the most popular speech that he ever delivered. Harper's Weekly, March 16, 1872. The President and the Secretary of State expressed themselves as in accord with Sumner at the time. The senator wrote, May 25, to George Bemis, then in Europe: For you I say that I conversed with the President before I spoke, and found his views to be in strict conformity with mine. Since the speech, he has thanked and congratulated me. Sumner's letter of the same date to Longfellow, and his letter to Bemis, July 7 (post, p. 410), are to the same effect. General Cushing, in a
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)
cation or collusion with any foreign power or any emissary or spy thereof, but was obliged to substitute the terms agent or officer, being reminded that those of spy and emissary were applicable only to a condition of war. Harper's Weekly, March 16, 1872, while disagreeing with Sumner and Schurz, treated the suggestion of their unlawful intercourse with foreign powers as ridiculous. On the main question, the international one, the senators who justified the Administration (except one) admitteead, Louis Napoleon or the king of Prussia. While Sumner disclaimed that his resolution was an attack on the President, his opponents insisted that it was a political move, The newspapers took the same view. Harper's Weekly, March 2, 9, and 16, 1872; New York Independent, February 29. specially intended to excite the German vote against the Administration; and the debate was at times diverted into a political and personal discussion as to affairs in Missouri, and particularly as to Schurz's