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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler 5 3 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, The new world and the new book 4 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4 2 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: December 3, 1863., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
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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)
however, kept his feelings from the public, not referring to them in any speech or open letter, expressing them chiefly to senators and friends having a special connection with Motley, but repressing them in his general correspondence. What he wrote related to the injustice to Motley, and not to himself. Strong as these feelings were, the controversy would have ended here if the President had not revived it at the session in December. Sumner wrote a note June 26, marked private, to J. L. Stackpole of Boston, nephew of Motley, who had written to him of the report in that city, on the 24th, of the minister's intended removal— I fear that there is ground for the rumor to which you refer; but I shall not believe the thing possible until it is done. I say to you confidentially that I have reason to believe that Mr. Grinnell, collector of New York, has been thought of as the successor. This would settle New York difficulties; but the whole thing is beyond the line of ordinary c