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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 II. 7 7 Browse Search
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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 20th or search for May 20th 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)
t if there can be a decisive battle where there is no field on which the troops can be marshalled. Happy country where there is no battle-field! But I cease to watch very closely single events in this war; it is the result which I keep in view, and this is sure. I expect further disaster, and now deliberately make up my mind to it. But this can only postpone without changing the final day. Perhaps it is needful in order to carry out the transition which is now in progress. To Lieber, May 20:— I perused your code Instructions for the Government of the Armies of the United States in the Field. when you first sent it to me. . . . It is an epoch, and marks the civilization of the country and age. Perhaps it may be called high-water mark, for it is of inconceivable importance to have these principles settled in the hard text of an articulated document, which is next to a statute. I congratulate you upon this work, which will give you fame. More than this, it will be usefu
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)
ht soon have to leave this country! This letter was copied generally by the English press, and was effective in spreading alarm in that country. It was the subject of kindly but trenchant criticism in two Boston journals, May 21,—the Advertiser and the Journal. Mr. Smith also replied to Sumner in a speech at Ithaca, May 19. Not one of them, not even the Times, with its enormous space, admitted it to its columns, but only culled extracts to suit a purpose. That journal contained, May 1, twenty columns of debates in Parliament, while Sumner's speech just received would have tilled only five. It was more moderate that day in its estimate of the speech than in later issues,—allowing it then the merit of an argumentative and dispassionate manner; and the day! before it said that its prevailing tone is rather that of passionate remonstrance than of menace. A few days later, however (May 5), it began its leader: Mr. Sumner had the questionable honor of contributing more than an other
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)
pon, and while not thinking the result as complete as it should be, regarded the treaty as promising substantial good, and supported it by his vote. Sumner, on May 20 and 22, denied in the Senate the truth of reports of his speech on the treaty, calling that in the New York Herald, May 20, a pure invention (Congressional Globe,May 20, a pure invention (Congressional Globe, pp. 889. 890); and the one in the Washington Chronicle, May 25, a fabrication (Globe, p. 891). Sumner appears to have spoken in executive session, May 10, in favor of the publication of the treaty (Boston Journal, May 11). He expressed the opinion that it would be hailed with joy by the thinking men of Great Britain and the Unitetion of the amendment in the treaty. . . . I found that people here fully believed in the accuracy of the sham report of your speech, New York Herald's report, May 20, on a copy of which the senator wrote a fabrication. but I have, I think, dispelled the illusion and placed your position on the question in its true light. It h
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 58: the battle-flag resolution.—the censure by the Massachusetts Legislature.—the return of the angina pectoris. —absence from the senate.—proofs of popular favor.— last meetings with friends and constituents.—the Virginius case.—European friends recalled.—1872-1873. (search)
t a friendly power, and the latter's subsequent career is well remembered. Behind all was the greed for Cuba and the watching of an opportunity to seize that possession of Spain. The whole transaction, reviving the memory of the Ostend manifesto of Buchanan, Mason, and Slidell, ended in a fiasco. The Virginius was delivered up by the Spanish government; and while being towed as a trophy by one of our war ships to New York, she went to the bottom off Cape Fear. I left Boston for Europe, May 20, and was absent till November 13. For the few days after my arrival home Sumner remained in the city. I sought his rooms at the Coolidge House as often as each alternate morning, reaching his door before he had completed his dressing, and remaining till after his breakfast. I brought him a can of honey from Hymettus; told him what I had seen in Europe,—Rome, Sicily, Athens, Constantinople, the Danube, and the exposition at Vienna,—and described the spectacle I had witnessed when John Brig