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Browsing named entities in Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4. You can also browse the collection for 1877 AD or search for 1877 AD in all documents.

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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 50: last months of the Civil War.—Chase and Taney, chief-justices.—the first colored attorney in the supreme court —reciprocity with Canada.—the New Jersey monopoly.— retaliation in war.—reconstruction.—debate on Louisiana.—Lincoln and Sumner.—visit to Richmond.—the president's death by assassination.—Sumner's eulogy upon him. —President Johnson; his method of reconstruction.—Sumner's protests against race distinctions.—death of friends. —French visitors and correspondents.—1864-1865. (search)
est Duvergier de Hauranne came with letters to Sumner in 1864 from the Count of Paris and M. Cochin. He was with the senator familiarly in Washington and Boston, and seems to have made a study of his personal qualities and position as a public man. Huit Mois en Amerique, vol. i. pp. 49, 50, 359-361; vol. II. pp. 81, 94, 253; first published in the Revue des deux Mondes. M. de Hauranne, who was twenty-one at the time of his visit, became a member of the Chamber of Deputies, and died in 1877, his distinguished father surviving him. He quotes Sumner's remark, L'homme daEtat doit se guider par la lumiere immuable des principes comme le marinier par laetoile du matin, adding that this solemn language fell naturally from his lips as the intimate and familiar expression of his thoughts, in itself sufficient to describe him. Auguste Laugel, between whom and Sumner relations of confidence had subsisted since their meeting in Paris in 1857, visited the United States in 1864-1865. The
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)
s made, according to the senator, without a word on his part leading to such an overture, which was as unexpected as it was undesired. Mr. Fish afterwards admitted that he did make the suggestion of the English mission to the senator, but claimed that he made it inconsiderately, and with no view to influence the senator's action, being led to it by the senator's reference to his own unhappy state of mind, grow in out of a former domestic trouble. Letter in the Boston Transcript. Oct, 31, 1877. On the whole, Mr. Fish's statement of his own motives in this matter is to be accepted. He knew the senator's official integrity, as he stated afterwards, too well to suppose him liable to be tempted in that way; and besides, the office itself could be no temptation to a senator who had recently begun a new term, and was quite sure of as many re-elections as he desired. If the offer was serious,—and surely Sumner was justified in so regarding it,—the suggestion of the mission which the sec
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)
gn to personal relations. Sumner took no part in the debate, only making one or two remarks from his seat. The audience (a large one) was in sympathy with him, and applauded points made in his behalf. The same influences which swayed Southern Republican senators on the San Domingo question—weak at home in their positions, and expectants of Executive favor-controlled them now. One of these, convicted of official malversation, was serving a term of imprisonment in the Washington jail in 1877. Chandler, Conkling, and Edmunds were, as Wilson intimated, on the war-path for another scalp. The last named, at a later day, succeeded in defeating the confirmation of E. Rockwood Hoar as a justice of the Supreme Court,—an accomplished jurist, eminently fitted to adorn that tribunal. Mr. Edmunds has won deserved distinction for his wisdom and fidelity as a legislator; but his treatment of these two New England public men will never be placed among his meritorious services. Unlike the Ve
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)
asked him for his resignation, neither then nor afterwards explaining to him why he took the step. This was stated to the writer by Mr. Jewell himself. and of the impeachment of Belknap, Secretary of War, for corruption in office, from whom the President parted with a too friendly acceptance of his resignation. Later Administrations,—those of Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland, and Harrison,—have happily escaped the succession of scandals which distinguished the civil service from 1869 to 1877. The demoralization of that period is chargeable in some degree to war, which always brings vices in its train; but it was also due largely to the President's too good opinion of men of easy virtue and his lax treatment of them when they were found out. This came to be the opinion of the American people, who, ever grateful for his service in the army and ready to confer on him any military rank or emolument, were determined in the purpose not to prolong his civil administration by a third el
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Note. (search)
as been engraved by S. A. Schoff. The engraving does not follow the portrait closely, and is thought better than the portrait. 8. Portrait, by Wellman Robinson; painted in 1856, now belonging to Harvard College. 9. Photograph, taken in London in 1857 for the late Henry Richard, M. P. (ante, vol. III. p. 547). 10. Portrait, by W. Willard; painted in twenty-one sittings in August and September, 1865, and still in Mr. Willard's possession at Sturbridge, Mass. The artist made a copy in 1877, which is owned by Thomas Mack, of Boston. He also painted the head for Abraham Avery. 11. Bust, by E. A. Brackett; given to Harvard College in 1857. 12. Bust, by M. Milmore; finished late in 1865 (ante, vol. IV. p. 199), and greatly commended at the time by Wendell Phillips, W. M. Hunt, John T. Sargent, F. V. Balch, and Lydia Maria Child (see her Letters, p. 187). The original was placed in the State House, Boston, and the artist's reproduction of it was given by the State of Massach
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, chapter 19 (search)
'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 at the Cooper Institute he defended with much elaboration the removal, stating instead, what is now disproved, that Mr. Sumner did not report six or seven treaties; nor by Mr. Howe, Mr. Hamlin, Mr. Cameron, and Mr. Anthony, when they explained in the Senate the cause of the removal, April 28, 1874; nor by General Grant, in his interviews in 1877– 1878, in Scotland or in Egypt; nor by Mr. Fish, in his five appearances before the public in October, November, and December, 1877. But it is, for the first time, made by Mr. Davis, Jan. 3, 1878, nearly seven years after Mr. Sumner's removal, and almost four years after his death, and only when Mr. Fish's repeated accusation has been completely disproved by the record. Mr. Davis's assertion that the President and secretary at that time informed senators of Mr. Sumner's neglect of public