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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)
offer was 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 whi