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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)
L. Pierce's administration of the Sea Islands of South Carolina. He wrote to him, Feb. 28, 1862:— We have to-day ordered the printing of your report, which forthwith becomes a document, and among the best. I am, proud of it. There is great ignorance in the chamber in regard to the pending cotton bill, and I fear there will be delay in considering it. But I shall try to press it. You are aware that it was prepared by Mr. Olmsted, Frederick L. Olmsted. an admirable man. Again, March 2:— The Secretary of the Treasury told me yesterday that he had given you full power with regard to the slaves at Port Royal. This is an eminent trust. And again, June 7:— I am very busy; not a minute for anything but work. This tax bill has absorbed me lately, and everything else also. But I have had time to hear of your success, for it comes to me constantly from so many tongues. You have done an excellent work, and laid a foundation for fame. Chase speaks of your doing<
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)
America herself had said it, her left [hand] on her sword, her right stretched forward to the multitude of nations. I cannot write on them as they deserve, because their perusal has thrown me into a mood which makes me desirous to pace up and down through my three rooms rather than write; but I could not help writing these grateful words at once. There is a trumpet blast in the resolutions, and yet a blast as that of a herald followed by the person of America. Sumner wrote to Mr. Jay, March 2:— My resolutions were discussed in committee three days, two hours each day. The first day, all was confusion; and Mr. Garrett Davis said he would not sanction anything which had slavery in it. I despaired; but at last, after some modifications, chiefly with regard to slavery as the origin and mainspring of the rebellion, the resolutions were unanimously adopted. I was surprised at the result; it seemed as if the millennium was at hand. Seward came to me to-day and expressed the des
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)
which Congress two years later found it wise to adopt. The resolution passed the House Feb. 20, 1866, and the Senate March 2. A few days later the question came up directly on a resolution introduced by Lane of Kansas, to recognize the State govt. Perhaps you will not be offended if I let you know that I showed the late President, at his request, your letter of March 2, in which you express the confidence in him and speak of the distrust of me. The reference is to the feeling among EnNew York Times, in successive leaders, took positive ground against negro suffrage as any part of the reconstruction. March 2; June 3, 19, 21, 23, 24, 26, 28, 29. The Cincinnati Commercial printed eleven years later letters found in Andrew JohnsAug. 18, 1864, and Jan. 11, 1865, may be found in Morley's Life of Cobden, vol. II. pp. 446, 459. to Sumner was written March 2, just one month before his death. He wrote:— I feel it a pleasant duty to give you my best congratulations on the
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)
obe, p. 5080. He embodied his views on financial reconstruction and specie payments in bills which he introduced at the beginning of the session, Dec. 7, 1869, Works, vol. XIII. pp. 184, 185; Jan. 12, 1870, Ibid., pp. 234-236. The New York Evening Post, in its leader (January 13), wrote approvingly of his scheme. and maintained them in a series of instructive speeches. Jan. 12, 26, Feb. 1, March 2, 10, 11, 1870, Works, vol. XIII. pp. 237-298; January 31, Congressional Globe, p. 908; March 2, Globe, p. 1634; March 3, Globe, pp. 1660, 1663, 1664; March 9, Globe, p. 1795; March 10, Globe, pp. 1839, 1841; March 11, Globe, pp. 1861, 1871. Except Sherman, no senator at this session contributed so much to the debate on the refunding and consolidation of the public debt. He succeeded in modifying in some points the committee's bill, but in his insistence on definite measures of resumption he was in advance of his associates. Sumner had from his first entrance into the Senate taken
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)
e senator had reported all but one of the treaties, reporting the eight with remarkable promptness, keeping five of them only about a month, and one of them only a single day; and the one unreported had been with the committee but three months, and was held back presumably for good reasons. E. L. Pierce in the Boston Transcript, Nov. 28, 1877, and in the North American Review, July-August, 1878, pp. 61-80. See Appendix. He was busy with its work to the last, reporting two treaties March 1, two days before his connection with it ended. Yet, after this disclosure and vindication, Mr. Fish did not regard it a ditty to recall his libel on a dead man. His gravest charge being thus shown by the record to have been false, all other charges and insinuations against the senator dependent on his testimony, whether coming directly from him or prompted by him, deserve no credit. III. The charge of not reporting the treaties being thus disposed of, and Mr. Fish retiring without confession
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 57: attempts to reconcile the President and the senator.—ineligibility of the President for a second term.—the Civil-rights Bill.—sale of arms to France.—the liberal Republican party: Horace Greeley its candidate adopted by the Democrats.—Sumner's reserve.—his relations with Republican friends and his colleague.—speech against the President.—support of Greeley.—last journey to Europe.—a meeting with Motley.—a night with John Bright.—the President's re-election.—1871-1872. (search)
. The Senate refused the request of Stevenson, the only Democrat chosen, to have Schurz take his place. Sumner was absent at the time, or, as he afterwards stated in the Senate, he would have entered at once his protest against the composition of the committee. The committee's report stated that Sumner would have been chairman if he had not declined; but the vote on Schurz's name indicates that he would have been excluded. His illness drew tender expressions from friends. Heber wrote, March 2: Let your secretary write us how you are, if you are too much occupied. Take care of your health, and remember that it was in 1828 or 1829 that I became acquainted with you. We are not young, and your country wants you,—living, I mean, for it will always have you or keep you in some sense. Wendell Phillips wrote, March 3:— Sorry to hear you are not so well, but glad they have caged you and forced you to rest. Now submit gracefully; consent to play sick for our sakes, who
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 59: cordiality of senators.—last appeal for the Civil-rights bill. —death of Agassiz.—guest of the New England Society in New York.—the nomination of Caleb Cushing as chief-justice.—an appointment for the Boston custom-house.— the rescinding of the legislative censure.—last effort in debate.—last day in the senate.—illness, death, funeral, and memorial tributes.—Dec. 1, 1873—March 11, 1874. (search)
mind during his last day in the Senate. It was fitting that his thoughts should be to the end on the future of the country, and the part that was to be hers in the destiny of mankind. The volume was published a few weeks after his death. Among sympathetic friends from Massachusetts who called on Sumner during this session were Governor and Mrs. Claflin. Wendell Phillips, engaged to deliver lectures in Washington, came late in February, and again early in March. On Monday evening, March 2, they parted an hour after midnight. Sumner clung to Phillips, and would not let him leave sooner. The latter reminded him that he was to have a foot-bath, and Sumner said: Well, I will take it if you won't go. They talked of old times, and of common friends at home. Within a week after, F. W. Bird, ever faithful and true to him, passed some hours with him. J. B. Smith was the senator's guest from the 6th to the 8th,—introduced by him one day on the floor of the Senate, and dining with h