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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 6. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 20 6 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 22. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 17 1 Browse Search
L. P. Brockett, The camp, the battlefield, and the hospital: or, lights and shadows of the great rebellion 11 1 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: January 24, 1862., [Electronic resource] 9 1 Browse Search
Henry Morton Stanley, Dorothy Stanley, The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley 8 0 Browse Search
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure) 7 1 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: December 5, 1861., [Electronic resource] 7 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 13. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 6 2 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: March 22, 1864., [Electronic resource] 5 1 Browse Search
James Parton, Horace Greeley, T. W. Higginson, J. S. C. Abbott, E. M. Hoppin, William Winter, Theodore Tilton, Fanny Fern, Grace Greenwood, Mrs. E. C. Stanton, Women of the age; being natives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present gentlemen 5 1 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 Hart or search for Hart in all documents.

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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)
parent that President Grant means to coerce Congress into an approval of his scheme, whether or no; but I trust that body will steadfastly resist anything like dictation from that quarter. I am sorry that commissioners are to be appointed, because as the President is to appoint them, and he is mad on annexation, they will surely report in conformity with his wishes. To me it is utterly incredible that the people of San Domingo wish to part with their independence, and to become a fractional Hart of our republic. I regard it as a mercenary, land-grabbing speculation of the worst type. Yours for sturdy uprightness. Frederick Douglass, writing Jan. 6, 1871, while he objected to Sumner's direct references to the President, paid a tribute to the senator for what he had done to his oppressed race as higher than the highest, better than the best of our statesmen. Of the delivery of the speech he said :— I heard every word of it, and would go many miles to hear a similar effort.