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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)
nt of troops from the North would be a hostile step which would surely precipitate events. Our situation, locked within the slave States, exposes us to attack before protection can come from the North. This cannot be changed. Of course, I shall not shrink from any responsibility; but the time has not come for the appeal which you desire. Events will travel with fearful rapidity. Very soon all slavedom will be in a blaze,—Virginia as much as any other State, embittered by the teachings of Wise and Mason. General Scott says: Since the 2d of January,—yes, sir, since the 2d of January, the President has done well. Jeff. Davis says that but two men in Washington are frightened,—the President and Scott. I enjoyed Andrew's message. At last Massachusetts is herself! Horace Greeley, appalled with the prospect of civil war with an uncertain issue, hastened to bid the insurgent States to go in peace, while at the same time rejecting any compromise. He treated secession as a revo<
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)
Soon after he drew attention to the illegal appointments at the South of persons unable to take the required oath of loyalty. January 5, 11; February 2; Congressional Globe, pp. 129, 184, 185, 593. The protests against the President's policy came from the people more tardily than otherwise, on account of certain conditions in the public mind which are not revealed in the debates in Congress. The country sought repose after the war, and was not in the mood for a severe civil conflict. Wise men feared the effects on our polity of a prolonged military administration at the South, and were anxious for a speedy restoration of civil governments. Capitalists desired an immediate pacification of the Southern territory as opening a market which had been closed for four years; as a mass, they could not treat critically schemes of reconstruction, and they inclined to the one which promised the quickest results. Political considerations were superadded. The Republicans held some of th
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)
heme for the acquisition of that island did not prosper. Next he turned to San Domingo, which was brought to his attention soon after his inauguration by that indefatigable trader Baez, followed shortly by a second gentleman Probably Fabens. from that country, whose name does not appear. The President lent a ready ear, desirous to extend the national area, and also, as he afterwards said, to open a refuge for the colored people of the United States. Personal Memoirs, vol. II. p. 550. Wise or unwise, his purpose appears to have been simple and honorable; but around him were adventurers who had ends of their own. His estimate of the resources of the territory was from the first fanciful. The negotiation properly belonged to the state department, but the President kept it in his own hands. Mr. Fish, who is supposed not to have been in sympathy with it, took at first only a perfunctory part. The original orders went no further than to justify inquiry; but as more was done, and