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Browsing named entities in Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4. You can also browse the collection for May 4th or search for May 4th in all documents.

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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)
velling equipage, and regarded the close of his mission as likely to be at hand. Earl Russell intimated to Mr. Adams for himself, and on behalf of Lord Palmerston and other members of the Cabinet, regret that the speech had been made. Seward to Adams, October 24. Sir George Cornewall Lewis, another member, undertook to neutralize its effect in a public address of his own; October 14, before the Herefordshire Agricultural Society. He died April 13, 1863; and, as Seward wrote to Adams, May 4, on account of his firm, just, and dignified course in regard to our national affairs, his death was mourned as profoundly in this country as in England. and the official organ, the Globe, drew a distinction between Mr. Gladstone and the ministry in regard to the sentiments he had expressed. The Duchess of Argyll wrote to Sumner, December 6, that Gladstone's Newcastle speech grieved the duke and herself. These disavowals in high quarters made public men more cautious; and, as Mr. Adams st
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)
. Nor am I insensible to other influences: what little remains to me of home and friendship is far away from here, where I was born. But home, friendship, and seashore must not tempt me at this hour. Lord Bacon tells us, in striking and most suggestive phrase, The duties of life are more than life. But if ever there was a time when the duties of a senator were supreme above all other things, so that temptation of all kinds should be trampled under foot, it is now. He wrote to Lieber, May 4:β€” I think that Banks's military character has suffered very much, hardly more than he has suffered as a statesman by his proceedings for reconstruction. In Louisiana, under Mr. Lincoln's direction. The sentiment in Louisiana among the earnest antislavery men is very strong for Butler. The President some time ago sent for me to show me private letters from Banks on reconstruction; but I have not exchanged a word with him on Banks's military character, and considering that he is a Mass
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)
ham Lincoln: an Essay, p. 96. while it was more conservative in requiring a larger proportion of the voters as the basis of the new governments, and wiser as well as juster in enforcing as a peremptory condition of restoration the perpetual prohibition of slavery in the constitutions of the restored States. In details it was more methodical and complete than the President's plan. Both schemes excluded the colored people from suffrage in the initiation of the new governments. In the House, May 4, a motion to strike out the word white was cut off by the previous question. Boutwell in his speech, just before the vote was taken on the bill, expressed regret that the limitation of the elective franchise to white male citizens was required by the present judgment of the House and of the country. When the Senate had under consideration, July 1, the House bill, Wade, chairman of the committee which had reported the bill with an amendment striking out the word white, declared against the
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)
eir petition. At the next session he voted and spoke, on the ground of untimeliness, against woman suffrage in the District of Columbia, remarking that suffrage for that sex was one of the great questions of the future, which would be easily settled whenever the women in any considerable proportion insist that it shall be settled. Dec. 13, 1866; Works, vol. XI. pp. 48-51. Mrs. L. M. Child plied him with arguments on the subject. See her Letters, p. 207. He wrote to William Claflin, May 4:β€” If Massachusetts speaks, it must be for those principles which are essential to the peace and stability of the republic. A reference to a proposed public meeting for the support of Congress which was held at Faneuil Hall, May 31, 1866. Governor Bullock and Mr. Boutwell were among the speakers. . . . It is said the President will veto the Colorado bill. What madness to pass such a bill, and brave such a veto, where Congress is in the wrong! Fessenden, Grimes, and myself, to say n
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 54: President Grant's cabinet.—A. T. Stewart's disability.—Mr. Fish, Secretary of State.—Motley, minister to England.—the Alabama claims.—the Johnson-Clarendon convention.— the senator's speech: its reception in this country and in England.—the British proclamation of belligerency.— national claims.—instructions to Motley.—consultations with Fish.—political address in the autumn.— lecture on caste.—1869. (search)
rine from the ocean and the rise of the rates of insurance, as an indirect effect of the proclamation, and of the sailing of the Confederate cruisers from English ports,β€”an injury which he put as a greater grievance than the actual losses of individuals; and Earl Russell in his replies (May 4 and Aug. 30, 1865), recognized the full import of this language as an attempt to hold Great Britain responsible for the whole damages of the war. Allow me to observe in the first place, wrote the earl, May 4, that I can never admit that the duties of Great Britain towards the United States are to be measured by the losses which the trade and commerce of the United States may have sustained. Reverdy Johnson, who had first put aside the national claims, brought them forward under instructions in his letters to Lord Clarendon, March 25 and April 9, 1869. All this was written before Sumner's speech in April, 1869, which in no respect advanced beyond the positions of our government. Later there wa