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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 51: reconstruction under Johnson's policy.—the fourteenth amendment to the constitution.—defeat of equal suffrage for the District of Columbia, and for Colorado, Nebraska, and Tennessee.—fundamental conditions.— proposed trial of Jefferson Davis.—the neutrality acts. —Stockton's claim as a senator.—tributes to public men. —consolidation of the statutes.—excessive labor.— address on Johnson's Policy.—his mother's death.—his marriage.—1865-1866. (search)
ing its passage through the Senate by storm, amid the excitement of the closing hours of the session. Mr. Bemis was distinguished as a lawyer for his critical and scientific treatment of criminal law; but for twenty years after his retirement from practice the study of public and international law was his favorite pursuit. His will contained a legacy to Sumner, which, as he was the survivor, lapsed; it contained also a tribute to the senator as a public man and personal friend. Conkling and Orth supported Banks, and the bill passed the House unanimously—--a large proportion of the members refraining from voting. Sumner's convictions were as strong as those of any one against the justice and legality of British conduct in our Civil War; but he was in this as in other cases opposed to retaliation as a principle. He meant to maintain our right and pursue our remedy according to just and honorable methods, and he was determined always to keep the United States strictly within the li
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)
r of 1868-1869 he sent to Washington a confidential envoy (Louis Paul Argenard), and also an American resident of the island (J. W. Fabens). They plied members of Congress by personal solicitation, and distributed freely a pamphlet which they had prepared. The result appeared in Banks's resolution for a protectorate over Hayti and San Domingo, which after debate was laid on the table by a large majority. Jan. 12 and 13, 1869. Congressional Globe, pp. 317, 333. A few weeks later Banks and Orth attempted without success to bring forward for debate a resolution for annexing San Domingo. Feb. 1 and 8, 1869. Congressional Globe, pp. 769, 972. Public opinion in the United States was at this time averse to tropical extension, and to the acquisition of islands occupied by a population alien to our own, who could be governed only by methods unknown to the American system. This is seen in the unanimous disfavor which the St. Thomas treaty, negotiated by Mr. Seward, encountered in t