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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4 95 1 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 39 1 Browse Search
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George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade) 23 1 Browse Search
Adam Badeau, Grant in peace: from Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a personal memoir 14 0 Browse Search
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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 44: Secession.—schemes of compromise.—Civil War.—Chairman of foreign relations Committee.—Dr. Lieber.—November, 1860– April, 1861. (search)
wo-thirds of the Republican senators, but a smaller proportion of the Republican members of the House, where there was much shifting of position. New York Times, January 23; February 5. Of this type in the Senate were Sumner, Wilson, Trumbull, Wade, and Preston King; and in the House, Thaddeus Stevens, John Hickman, G. A. Grow, Roscoe Conkling, and Owen Lovejoy; and among Massachusetts members, Alley, Buffinton, Burlingame, Eliot, and Gooch. At such a period the steady courage of Sumner was and the next day he had a correction made in the journal which had failed to record his objection. It passed at the end of the session by the exact two-thirds vote required. Among the negative votes were those of Sumner, Wilson, Foot, Trumbull, Wade, Preston King, and Z. Chandler. Seward and Fessenden did not vote. In presenting, February 18, petitions opposed to compromise, Sumner added comments of his own in approval. He expressed his dissent, February 25, from one which prayed for natio
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 45: an antislavery policy.—the Trent case.—Theories of reconstruction.—confiscation.—the session of 1861-1862. (search)
setts, Morrill and Fessenden of Maine, Hale of New Hampshire, Foot and Collamer of Vermont, Preston King of New York, Wilmot of Pennsylvania, Trumbull of Illinois, Wade and Sherman of Ohio, and Chandler of Michigan. The presence most missed was that of Douglas, who died June 3. The session of July 9 was set apart for eulogies rpest criticism or the most strenuous resistance from senators who had the reputation of holding advanced antislavery positions,—and in this instance from Hale and Wade. Sumner proposed an amendment to the internal tax bill, taxing slaveholders for their slaves, which encountered from several Republican senators constitutional 's proposition prevailed after a debate, but was lost on a later vote. Among the senators voting with him were Anthony, Fessenden, Foot, Grimes, King, Trumbull, Wade, and Wilmot. Among those voting against the amendment were Hale and Wilson. Consideration for the border slave States rather than constitutional scruples determin
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 48: Seward.—emancipation.—peace with France.—letters of marque and reprisal.—foreign mediation.—action on certain military appointments.—personal relations with foreigners at Washington.—letters to Bright, Cobden, and the Duchess of Argyll.—English opinion on the Civil War.—Earl Russell and Gladstone.—foreign relations.—1862-1863. (search)
rd at an early date is given in his letter, Feb. 2, 1858, to J. S. Pike. First Blows of the Civil War, p. 379. Sumner, and Wade, waited on the President, December 18. Collamer presented the formal paper which had been agreed upon, and the senators ithe alternative of gradual emancipation. Among them were Fessenden, Grimes, Harlan of Iowa, Lane of Indiana, Pomeroy, and Wade. Wilson voted with Sumner at one stage and against him at another. Sumner, though failing to have the obnoxious provisioto discharge the committee; but in this he was defeated, May 27, by a decisive vote. Sumner committed to a similar burial Wade's resolution of inquiry on Mexican affairs; and McDougall confessed his own inability to resist the tide of power in the Swith the sun, will sink into endless night in order to gratify the ambition of the leaders of this revolt, who seek to Wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind. I have another and a far brighter vision before my
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 49: letters to Europe.—test oath in the senate.—final repeal of the fugitive-slave act.—abolition of the coastwise slave-trade.—Freedmen's Bureau.—equal rights of the colored people as witnesses and passengers.—equal pay of colored troops.—first struggle for suffrage of the colored people.—thirteenth amendment of the constitution.— French spoliation claims.—taxation of national banks.— differences with Fessenden.—Civil service Reform.—Lincoln's re-election.—parting with friends.—1863-1864. (search)
ceived from him. Sumner recalled in this debate his early association with Marshall. Ante, vol. i. pp. 124, 125. Sumner struggled hard at the same session, in the consideration of two bills amending the city charter, to include the colored people among the electors of the city of Washington; but the Senate was deaf to his entreaties, even rejecting the inclusion of colored soldiers. May 12, 26, 27, 28, 1864. Works, vol. VIII. pp. 458-469. Those like Morrill of Maine, Grimes, and Wade, who thought the proposition untimely, and those who were opposed to it altogether, made the majority. His own colleague was among those whom he could not persuade. Sumner, in protesting against the exclusion of the colored people from the suffrage, said: At this moment of revolution, when our country needs the blessing of Almighty God and the strong arms of all her children, this is not the time for us solemnly to enact injustice. In duty to our country and in duty to God, I plead against
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)
p that it was not best to go on with them then, Wade ejaculated, You would if you were in prison. Cn of authorities and a letter from Dr. Lieber. Wade was driven to accept some amendments, and Sumneheir places of confinement, was carried against Wade's protest. The committee's resolutions, thus m, Grimes, Howard, Sprague, Stewart, Sumner, and Wade. On the 24th Sumner renewed his effort to displ disabilities on account of color. Motions by Wade, Chandler, Howard, and Sumner to adjourn or pos duty; and he moved to take up a revenue bill. Wade, who with intense feeling on the subject had hi senators (Brown, Chandler, Howard, Sumner, and Wade) and seven Democratic senators voted together opoint. He had earnest coadjutors in Howard and Wade; but it was admitted in unfriendly quarters thaopponent Trumbull, or his supporters Howard and Wade. He stood alike for reconstruction by the peoplnt. Thaddeus Stevens, Henry Winter Davis, and Wade Howard and Wade ascribed the present difficu[8 more...]
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)
nderson, and Yates referred to Sumner in very complimentary terms. Sumner's substitute received eight votes—his own and those of Brown, Chandler, Howe, Pomeroy, Wade, and Wilson. Henderson's proposition of an amendment to the Constitution, forbidding the States in prescribing the qualifications of electors to discriminate agaisaying that his conscientious friend mistook twinges of dyspepsia for constitutional scruples; and Sumner replied that he had never had the dyspepsia in his life. Wade thought that Sumner had a certain one idea that covered the whole ground. The bill not receiving the President's signature failed to become a law; and the fundame I came to my desk with an armful of books, and announced to all about me that I was good for five hours at least, if the neutrality bill were called up. Very soon Wade tried to move it, but did not succeed. From seven o'clock in the evening till seven o'clock in the morning I kept my seat, on the watch. At last, at eleven o'clo
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 52: Tenure-of-office act.—equal suffrage in the District of Columbia, in new states, in territories, and in reconstructed states.—schools and homesteads for the Freedmen.—purchase of Alaska and of St. Thomas.—death of Sir Frederick Bruce.—Sumner on Fessenden and Edmunds.—the prophetic voices.—lecture tour in the West.—are we a nation?—1866-1867. (search)
ssed at the beginning of this session,—and now as before by Wade, chairman of the committee on territories. His impetuous ahe voters, which Sumner had moved at the previous session. Wade and Sherman resisted it, urging that there were but few colsuch of those States as adopted the fourteenth amendment. Wade thought Sumner's objection to the Nebraska constitution a lmphatically that he was bound by any understanding, such as Wade recognized, to readmit rebel States which, while ratifying eater weight. On the 9th, just as the vote was being taken, Wade called on the friends of the bill to vote down Brown's amen104); Norton in the Senate, Feb. 16, 1867 (Globe, p. 1463); Wade in the Senate, Dec. 14, 1866 (Globe, p. 124). Sherman said,espect led to an acrimonious debate in the Senate, in which Wade took him severely to task; and Conness also made reflection of the session Wade was chosen president of the Senate. Wade received twenty-two out of twenty-six votes in the Republic
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, chapter 10 (search)
esult. Some of the senators had been in controversies with Wade, president of the Senate, who would have succeeded an impea I take it that the whole story in the Sun is a quiz. Wade assures me that he has not spoken with a human being about Early in the proceedings he argued for the right of Senator Wade, the president pro tern. of the Senate, to vote on all nference on the political situation, where were present Senators Wade, Chandler, and Sumner, John W. and D. C. Forney. D. K. vice in the distinguished body which he entered in 1851, Wade entered the Senate at the same time with Sumner, but his tentervals. The New York Tribune, March 4, 1869, comments on Wade's retirement. and he had been since 1861 its most conspicuowhich received only nine votes, including those of Edmunds, Wade, and Wilson. In a speech he traversed familiar ground, in r's name was mentioned in connection with the Cabinet which Wade might have formed if Johnson had been removed by impeachmen
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)
ner from the committee on foreign relations, which had been threatened by Conkling in the debate, was now fully determined upon, to be effected at the next election in March. The purpose to remove him was freely avowed by senators who assumed to be the President's special friends, and was a subject of comment in the public journals. This, it may be noted, was some weeks before the conferences resulting in the Treaty of Washington were entered upon. The President appointed as commissioners Benjamin F. Wade of Ohio, Andrew D. White of New York, and Samuel G. Howe of Massachusetts. Professor Agassiz declined an appointment, not wishing to take a place which might involve any semblance of antagonism to his friend the senator; but Dr. Howe was less considerate in this respect. The commission sailed Jan. 18, 1871, accompanied y Frederick Douglass, General Sigel, and several editors. They remained in San Domingo or its waters from January 23 to February 28, being engaged about five we