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Massachusetts (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
I declared you to be able to do us the most good. But Massachusetts has already more than her quota according to the propor850. If at that election I received from the people of Massachusetts any special charge, it was to use my best endeavors to use passed, March 1, 1864, a bill, reported by Eliot of Massachusetts, which established a freedmen's bureau under the war depay for colored troops, particularly those enlisted for Massachusetts regiments, became a subject of controversy which involvof gratitude which the country owed to the senator from Massachusetts for his patriotism and statesmanship, and pronounced hideath. J. W. Grimes's Life, p. 279. Governor Andrew of Massachusetts, foremost among war governors, who had occasion to seeke. This nomination was assisted by some delegates from Massachusetts, who thought that a loyal Southern man would add more sin by cavalier colonists. He spoke in certain towns in Massachusetts, and also in Hartford and New London, Conn., where Mr.
Europe (search for this): chapter 6
is result; but I shrink from saying that anything can make me happy now. This war stretches on fearfully. The blood and treasure lavished to subdue belligerent slavery are beyond precedent. But so great and audacious a crime, sustained by European aid, resists with a natural diabolism. If it were left to itself, without foreign support, it would soon cease, under the assaults of the national government. The President, on his return from General Grant's headquarters, told me that the gr (p. 32), quoted in Longfellow's Life (vol. II. pp. 414, 415), wrote his recollections of Craigie House: Sumner, with the poet's little daughter nestling in his lap,—for he is a man to whom all children come,—calmly discussing some question of European literature, seeming to feel deeply the defection of certain of the old antislavery leaders of England from the Northern cause in the great crisis of the struggle. Sumner wrote to Mr. Cobden, September 18:— Bear witness that I have neve<
Puget Sound (Washington, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
uestions,—first, the capitalization of the duties paid by our commerce on the Scheldt, on which I expect to speak to-day in executive session; and secondly, a bill to pay five millions for French spoliations, on which I am now drawing a report. To these add business of all kinds, and the various questions of slavery and of England, and I wish for a day of rest. Lord Lyons said to him at this time, You do take good care of my treaties. One of them related to the Hudson Bay Company and Puget Sound. At this as also at the preceding session Sumner reported a bill for the payment of the French Spoliation Claims, which had been pressed on Congress from the beginning of the century,—meeting generally the favor of committees, sometimes passing one House and failing in the other; twice passing both Houses, and then arrested by the Executive veto. He now took up the subject anew, making an exhaustive report, which traced the history and maintained the justice and equity of the claims.
Gold Hill (Colorado) (Colorado, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
practical knowledge. Sumner tried to avoid a personal controversy, but Fessenden was persistent in his thrusts. The Boston Commonwealth replied, May 13, 1864, to Fessenden's imputation in debate that Sumner had instigated its criticisms of himself, and denied that Sumner had any complicity with them. Fessenden so far forgot himself at times as to talk audibly in the Senate while Sumner was speaking. This is stated by another senator, Mr. Conness, in an interview published in the Gold Hill (Colorado) News, and sent by him in a note to Sumner, August 22. 1865. Mr. Conness said, Mr. Fessenden was always snapping at Mr. Sumner in debate. Frederick Douglass, writing to Sumner, Sept. 9, 1869, the day after Mr. Fessenden's death, said: He [Mr. Fessenden] was never just to you, and sometimes I fear intentionally offensive; but now that his chair is vacant, and his voice silent in the Senate, you must remember with satisfaction your forbearance towards him and your freedom from bitter re
New Hampshire (New Hampshire, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
alertness on the floor, and his capacity for a running debate, which had developed with him as with other Republican senators under the responsibilities of government. The House did not proceed with the bill at this session; but at the next, in February, 1865, a committee of conference, of which Sumner was a member, reported a bill creating an independent department of freedmen and abandoned lands. This passed the House, but Sumner was unable to carry it in the Senate, where Hale of New Hampshire and Lane of Indiana now joined Grimes in opposition. On the last day of the session another committee of conference agreed on a bill which placed the bureau in the war department, limited its term to one year after the war, and reduced its scope. In this form it passed without debate or division, and was one of the last acts approved by Mr. Lincoln. General O. O. Howard was appointed commissioner. The bureau became a distinctive part of Republican policy, and a year later it was foun
Mexico (Mexico, Mexico) (search for this): chapter 6
I have not exchanged a word with him on Banks's military character, and considering that he is a Massachusetts man, I do not wish to interfere against him. For the present I stand aloof. . . . Tell me what you think of our duty now with regard to Mexico and France. You notice that the House resolution Ante, p. 119. Lieber's Life and Letters, p. 346. has already caused an echo in Europe. I have kept it carefully in my committee room, where it still sleeps. My idea has been that we were not in He wrote to Lieber, June 27, after referring to two measures he had succeeded him carrying that day,—the prohibition of the coastwise slave-trade, and the required admission of colored testimony in all national tribunals,— Meanwhile I keep Mexico in my committee, where I have the Arguelles case Nicolay and Hay's Life of Lincoln, vol. IX. pp. 44-47. and a joint resolution from the House of Representatives terminating the convention with Great Britain limiting ships and navy yards on th
Liberia (Liberia) (search for this): chapter 6
n Washington was much to see you and some others to the extent I desired; but I wish to express to you my thanks for your very kind attentions, and the great pleasure I felt on seeing you in your seat in the Senate chamber,—a seat which you have filled with so much personal and historic credit to yourself, and which can have no better successor in the long hereafter. The part you have taken in consummating those great Congressional measures,—the recognition of the independence of Hayti and Liberia, the anti-slave-trade treaty with Great Britain, the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia, the consecration of all the Territories to freedom, the enrolment of negro soldiers for the suppression of the rebellion, the repeal of the fugitive-slave bill, etc.,—has been as important to the country as honorable to yourself. A review of your senatorial career must at all times give you the deepest satisfaction, in that you have constantly endeavored to serve the cause of liberty and<
Tennessee (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
ake it possible to elect him, if not easy. Indeed, I am prepared for an uprising against it. The country does not yet understand it; but its revolting character is too apparent. Like an overdose of arsenic, it will cure itself. Let me know what occurs. I was on the point of going to New York for counsel, and to find privacy with you; but I abandoned the idea. The Republican national convention placed on the ticket with Mr. Lincoln, as candidate for Vice-President, Andrew Johnson of Tennessee. This nomination was assisted by some delegates from Massachusetts, who thought that a loyal Southern man would add more strength to the ticket than the present incumbent of the office, Mr. Hamlin. This was a reasonable view, although the history of the next four years proved the selection to have been an unfortunate one. In the change from Hamlin to Johnson, Sumner took no part whatever. While always ready for contests which concerned principles and policies, he had no taste for those
Nahant (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
ion to have been an unfortunate one. In the change from Hamlin to Johnson, Sumner took no part whatever. While always ready for contests which concerned principles and policies, he had no taste for those which concerned only the individual or sectional claims of candidates. No urgency of persuasion would have moved him to leave his seat in the Senate in order to attend a national political convention. Sumner arrived at home, July 17. He passed a week early in August with Longfellow at Nahant, where the air, the breeze, the sea were kindly, and where on the piazza they read together Tennyson's last volume, Enoch Arden, enjoying it more than air or breeze or sea. Later in the month he was for a few days at Newport. At a dinner at William Beach Lawrence's he met Lord Airlie, who recorded in his diary Sumner's remarks on the speeches of English statesmen, our Civil War, and other topics,—extracts from which, without Lord Airlie's authority, appeared in the Scotsman, Jan. 7, 186
New Jersey (New Jersey, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
hn Jay. With Sumner, as with Bryant and Greeley and all other patriotic men, the question was settled by the Chicago treason. The fear of an adverse decision of the people in November, felt by Mr. Lincoln himself as well as by others, vanished with the victories of our army in Georgia, which culminated in the evacuation of Atlanta by the rebels on the night of the day of McClellan's nomination. Mr. Lincoln carried the electoral vote of all the States except three,—Delaware, Kentucky, and New Jersey; but McClellan's vote was very large in some States, as New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. It is curious to observe how in a few months, when death had set its seal on a great character, Mr. Lincoln's honest critics became his sincere eulogists,—notably Bryant, Greeley, Bancroft, Andrew, and Sumner. Sumner read to the writer, in May, 1865, at his mother's house in Boston, some parts of his eulogy on Lincoln as he was preparing it. When reminded that he had sometimes spoken of the Presid
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