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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)
with perfect simplicity: I never see Lord Lyons. If it were proper I should like to talk with him, that he might hear from my lips how much I desire peace. If we could talk together he would believe me. . . . There is another question pending at this moment in my committee,—the President and Cabinet declining to act,—what we shall do on the Mexican side. That fleet of England, France, and Spain in the Gulf of Mexico means no good to us. To Mr. Bright, Jan. 9, 1862:— Yours of 21st December made me grateful again. We all look with curiosity to the reception of our recent act in England. I think the fire-eaters will have all their fire taken from them. What will they do next? I am not without my fears that we have obtained a truce only. Among us there has been loose talk with occasional menace, but the result has been accepted with singular tranquillity. As for our Cabinet, I assure you confidently, knowing what I say, that there is no idea of war or rupture with Engl<
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)
aid, Then you must go on it. Notwithstanding he was already fully occupied by the duties of the foreign relations committee, Sumner accepted this additional service, and remained on the committee until December, 1872. His motion in the committee for reporting a bill to prohibit exclusion from suffrage in the District on account of race or color was adopted. The bill underwent debate, but did not reach a vote at this session. Works, vol. x. p. 7. He spoke briefly for equal suffrage, December 21, on presenting a petition. Ibid., p. 98. The reading and writing qualification was moved as an amendment, but it was rejected by a vote of fifteen to nineteen. Sumner's vote is among the nays. Speech, Dec. 13, 1866 (Works, vol. XI. pp. 48-51), when he voted against the same amendment. In declining to admit the restriction into this bill as a precedent, he had in view the political necessity which required the entire voting force of the colored people in the disorganized States as th
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)
morning, and agreed against allowing any discrimination in favor of a particular ship. Nothing would please the English more. Sumner was in friendly personal relations with Mr. Fish from the beginning of the session till Jan. 9, 1871. On December 21, 1870, he referred in the Senate to the secretary as his distinguished friend. Even after the heated debate of December 21, he dined on the 23d at Mr. Fish's in company with Senator Morton. The day before, he had cordially assisted in the cDecember 21, he dined on the 23d at Mr. Fish's in company with Senator Morton. The day before, he had cordially assisted in the confirmation of Mr. Schenck as Motley's successor, when he asked for the Senate's immediate action with a waiver of a reference to the committee on foreign relations. On the 27th Mr. Fish was before the committee to explain the business of his department. Sumner wrote afterwards Within a brief fortnight [before January 9] I had been in conference with him [Mr. Fish] at the state department, and had dined at his house, besides about the same time making a call there. They were meeting in this
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)
ose the last two days of the session. Members freely expressed in conversation their regret at being compelled to vote on the resolution, but they shrank from making a different record. One or more wrote to Sumner, confessing remorsefully that they had voted against their better judgment. The resolution, as required by its terms, was sent to the senators and representatives of the State in Congress, but none of them presented it in the House or Senate. Sumner wrote to W. P. Phillips, December 21: Boston Herald, Jan. 15, 1893.— I cannot comprehend this tempest. The resolution which is treated so severely is an old inhabitant. I have already brought it forward in substance twice before this last motion, and received the warm commendation of General Scott, General Anderson, etc. ... I know that I never deserved better of Massachusetts than now. It was our State which led in requiring all safeguards for liberty and equality; I covet for her that other honor of leading in r
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, chapter 19 (search)
Curtis in the summer of 1871 at Long Branch, and in his interviews in Scotland in September, 1877, and at Cairo in January, 1878, without ever making the remotest allusion to the reason which Mr. Davis now resorts to when the others have failed. Again, and finally, as showing that no views of Mr. Sumner about Canada ever prompted a vote for his removal, it should be remembered that the removal was attempted at the beginning of the session in December, 1870, and threatened in debate on December 21, some weeks before the memorandum of Jan. 17, 1871, about Canada was written. Mr. Davis assumes to give the terms of Mr. Sumner's memorandum of Jan. 17, 1871. Taking it as given, Mr. Sumner appears to have thought the proximity to us of the British possessions a cause of irritation and disturbance, by furnishing a basis of operations for Fenianism; and in order to make the settlement complete, and prevent all controversy in the future, he proposed the peaceful and voluntary withdrawal