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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)
of age and citizens, or was in any way abridged except for participation in rebellion or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State. This provision, with some variations, was the same as was proposed by Stevens at the beginning of the session, and later offered with some change of phraseology by Spalding, Blaine, Conkling, and Schenck, and was at last reported by the reconstruction committee. Sumner referred, Feb. 8, 1869 (Congressional Globe, p. 1003), to the different forms of the proposed amendment, and his objections to them. It failed in the Senate, but finally prevailed after it had been recast by the committee. The idea of the provision in its different forms was to make it for the interest of the former slave States to confer suffrage on the colored people by diminishing their representation in Congress to t
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)
from the same hand. The American members of the Joint High Commission,—Fish, Schenck. E. R. Hoar, Nelson, and Williams,—in their protocol of March 8, 1871, repeatwith interest at seven per cent from July 1, 1863. Lord Granville Letter to Schenck, March 30, 1872. thought this an incredible demand, involving a magnitude of ds! Or more than half of $9,095,000,000. Memorandum to Granville's letter to Schenck. Davis afterwards charged Sumner with putting forth doctrines and figures whicssion. A voluminous correspondence ensued between Granville and our minister, Schenck, and between Schenck and Fish. Mr. Fish's two letters of February 27 and ApriSchenck and Fish. Mr. Fish's two letters of February 27 and April 16, 1872, maintained, on a full review of the controversy, that the national claims had been insisted upon from the beginning,—that they were included in the Treation of the United States from 1861 to 1872, maintained by Seward, Adams, Fish, Schenck, Grant, the American members of the Joint High Commission, the eminent counsel<
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)
he 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 o the baseness charged in the letter to Moran. After this meeting Sumner declined to recognize Mr. Fish at a dinner at Mr. Schenck's house. Sumner, in reply to a note from Edward Eggleston of Brooklyn, wrote from the Senate chamber while Schurz wasn presence of official characters to answer some question from Fish; Supposed to be a reference to what occurred at Mr. Schenck's dinner-table. but he was unable to state what the question, was, and he did not claim that it referred to official bhe caucus. The Commission began its sessions February 27, and ended them May 8. The American commissioners were Fish, Schenck, E. R. Hoar, Judge Nelson, and G. H. Williams; the British commissioners were Earl de Grey (afterwards Marquis of Ripon)