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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 50: last months of the Civil War.—Chase and Taney, chief-justices.—the first colored attorney in the supreme court —reciprocity with Canada.—the New Jersey monopoly.— retaliation in war.—reconstruction.—debate on Louisiana.—Lincoln and Sumner.—visit to Richmond.—the president's death by assassination.—Sumner's eulogy upon him. —President Johnson; his method of reconstruction.—Sumner's protests against race distinctions.—death of friends. —French visitors and correspondents.—1864-1865. (search)
wrote to Mrs. L. M. Child, April 2:— I trust that the letter to the emperor of Brazil, with the excellent tract, Mrs. Child's pamphlet, The Right Way the Safe Way. is already far on the way. I gave them to the Brazilian minister here, with the request that he would have the goodness to forward them. I count much upon the enlightened character of the emperor. Of course, slavery must cease everywhere when it ceases among us. Its neck is in our rebellion, which we are now sure to cut. Cuba, Porto Rico, and Brazil must do as we do, without our terrible war, I trust. Sumner remained in Washington two months longer. It was, as already seen, his custom to linger there after the close of a session in order to bring up arrears of business and correspondence, and to prosecute studies on questions pending or at hand; but he had a particular purpose now, when projects of reconstruction, in view of the approaching end of the rebellion, were rife. During these weeks he saw much of t
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 52: Tenure-of-office act.—equal suffrage in the District of Columbia, in new states, in territories, and in reconstructed states.—schools and homesteads for the Freedmen.—purchase of Alaska and of St. Thomas.—death of Sir Frederick Bruce.—Sumner on Fessenden and Edmunds.—the prophetic voices.—lecture tour in the West.—are we a nation?—1866-1867. (search)
of our political policy. What can be better than the gradual extension of our republican system over the continent? George F. Edmunds wrote from Burlington, Vt.:— It ought to have a place in every school-room and in every library of the land. Give me leave to hope, however, that you will not hasten the closing prophecy of irresistible attraction, and that you bring a little of your potent obstructiveness and technicality to bear against the hasty purchase of the Danish islands or Cuba. You see I do not include British Columbia. Schuyler Colfax wrote from South Bend, Indiana:— I write this hurried note to tell you how much I was interested and instructed by your article in the last Atlantic. How you find time for so much research I cannot imagine; but the results are always valuable to your friends, among whom allow me to count as one. James Dixon, late senator from Connecticut, wrote, September 11:— The fertility of your mind seems exhaustless. The s<
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, chapter 10 (search)
5293). Other subjects to which Sumner gave attention during this session were the death of Mr. Hinds of Missouri, a member of the House, to whom he paid a tribute; Jan. 23, 1869. Works, vol. XIII. pp. 32, 33. a resolution of sympathy with Spain in her effort for liberal institutions, with an appeal for the abolition of slavery; Dec. 17 and 19, 1868 (Congressional Globe, pp. 122,145). He reported against the resolution after the House had added a recognition of the independence of Cuba.-one of Mr. Banks's projects,—March 2 and 3, 1669 (Globe, pp. 1819, 1828, 1864). the maintenance of mixed courts in Africa for the suppression of the slave-trade under the treaty with Great Britain, and the payment of salaries to the judges. Feb. 1, 2, and 3 (Congressional Globe, pp. 765-767, 783-786, 818). The New York World, with reference to this debate, referred, February 5, to his dictatorship in the Senate. He wrote to Dr. Howe, Jan. 1869:— It is difficult to understand the
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)
Jan. 13, 1871. J. W. Forney's Anecdotes of Public men, vol. II. p. 263. See also letter to Gerrit Smith, Aug. 20, 1871, in the latter's Life, by Frothingham, p. 329. He Senate took a recess till half-past 7 in the evening, when Morton replied to Sumner. He repelled the charge of usurpation and the comparison of the President with Buchanan and Pierce, but passed lightly over the use of our ships in the Haytian and Dominican waters. Though predicting the annexation of San Domingo and also of Cuba and Porto Rico at some future time, he as well as the other supporters of the resolution put aside the ultimate question, and contended that the proposed commission would result in useful information. Aorton's speech was the strongest on his side, and it kept within the limits of parliamentary law and good breeding. Nye justified the President, but paid a tribute to Sumner's character as the boldest among the bold of the champions of human freedom, as spotless as the mountain snow, and spok
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)
me of Henry II. July 23. New York Evening Post, July 25. The seizure of the Virginius by the Spanish authorities in Cuba, with the summary execution of a large number of men on board, on the ground that, though flying the American colors, she certain class of merchants and a certain class of lawyers. This interest, ever ready to provoke or aid an insurrection in Cuba, held a public meeting at Steinway Hall, November 17, to stimulate a war spirit against Spain. William M. Evarts took thevictions, and do not cease to be yourself because of the insanity which infects the citizens of New York on the subject of Cuba. Longfellow wrote on a postal card: I like your letter to the Cubans extremely. That is the way a statesman should thinkal armament against 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 O