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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)
mbull nineteen. The Senate refused the request of Stevenson, the only Democrat chosen, to have Schurz take his place. Sumner was absent at the time, or, as he afterwards stated in the Senate, he would have entered at once his protest against the composition of the committee. The committee's report stated that Sumner would have been chairman if he had not declined; but the vote on Schurz's name indicates that he would have been excluded. His illness drew tender expressions from friends. Heber wrote, March 2: Let your secretary write us how you are, if you are too much occupied. Take care of your health, and remember that it was in 1828 or 1829 that I became acquainted with you. We are not young, and your country wants you,—living, I mean, for it will always have you or keep you in some sense. Wendell Phillips wrote, March 3:— Sorry to hear you are not so well, but glad they have caged you and forced you to rest. Now submit gracefully; consent to play sick for o
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 58: the battle-flag resolution.—the censure by the Massachusetts Legislature.—the return of the angina pectoris. —absence from the senate.—proofs of popular favor.— last meetings with friends and constituents.—the Virginius case.—European friends recalled.—1872-1873. (search)
train at Palmer, I saw him again but for a minute or two in the evening at Springfield when he was taking the train for New York. As he stood on the platform of the car, we shook hands, he saying, Good-by; God bless you! and we parted for the last time. In a few moments he lad left forever the State he had loved and served. He was in New York two days. It was always his instinct to seek the relatives of his deceased friends, and this time he searched without success for the widow of Dr. Heber, who had died October 2. He paused for a day in Philadelphia to see the Furness family, and here Mr. Forney called on him. Mr. Forney, in his interesting recollections of Sumner (Anecdotes of Public Men, vol. II. pp. 253-263), gives an account of his interviews with the senator in Philadelphia at this time, in which he notes his high spirits and apparently excellent health. pp. 260, 261. He reached Washington on Friday of the same week. It was evident during the summer and autumn