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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, chapter 19 (search)
ealed by Mr. Davis? If it were true that Mr. Fish ever made the communication to senators which Mr. Davis now alleges, such communication would also have been made first of all to the President, before even it was mentioned to a senator. But General Grant, in all his justifications of Mr. Sumner's removal, puts forth two only,—the pigeon-holing and the non-speaking ones, as in his conversation with Mr. 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