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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)
ion he showed to the end the perseverance of the youth who carried to completion the plan of a pedestrian journey when his companions one after another left him to continue it alone. Ante, vol. i. p. 69. When appropriate bills were pending, he moved and advocated amendments to remove the disability of colored persons as witnesses in the courts of the United States, including proceedings for confiscation, April 3. Works, vol. VI. pp. 442-444; May 12 and June 28, vol. VI. pp. 502, 503; July 3, 7, and 15, vol. VII. pp. 152-161. and as carriers of mails. March 18, 1862. Works, vol. VI. p. 385-388. In these efforts he encountered unexpected resistance from Republican senators and representatives, sometimes on the ground that his motions were likely to defeat a beneficial measure,—for instance, from Hale and Clark of New Hampshire and Foster of Connecticut as to the removal of the former disability, and from Colfax in the House as to the removal of the latter. He secured the e
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)
July 2 and 3 Globe, pp. 1421, 1439, 1443, 2615, 2621, 3523, 3549): the mission to Portugal. July 20 (Globe. pp. 3952-3954); the editing of the Confederate archives. May 24 (Works, vol. x. pp. 464-467); the purchase of land for the navy yard at Charlestown, Mass., March 16 (Globe, p. 1446); the publication of the annual report of the National Academy of Sciences, March 15 (Globe, pp. 1418, 1419); the purchase of the law library of James L. Petigru the intrepid Unionist of South Carolina, July 3 (Works, vol. x. pp. 479, 480); the power of Congress to take measures against the cattle plague, April 25 (Works, vol. x. pp. 425, 426): the relief of certain contractors in the construction of war vessels. April 17 (Works, vol. x. pp. 419-424); appeals in patent cases, April 2 (Globe, p. 1715); burden of proof in seizures under revenue laws, Maya 14 and 15 (Globe, pp. 2564, 2565, 2590); the conditions making a vacancy which the President can fill during a recess of Congress, April 23. 3
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)
from injuries and wounds of all kinds, talking as much as ever. Let me thank you sincerely for your kind words on my marriage, and remember me, if you please, to the Prince de Joinville. Congress was in session from March 4 to the 80th, from July 3 to the 20th, and from November 21 to the 30th; and the Senate held a special session from April 1 to the 20th. The resolution for adjourning from March 20 to July 3 limited the power of senators not making a quorum to voting an adjournment,—a July 3 limited the power of senators not making a quorum to voting an adjournment,—a limitation which Sumner did not think constitutional. July 3, 1867; Works, vol. XI. pp. 365-367. Sumner pressed for a continuous or almost continuous session, with the view of checking the President and defeating his plans; but others did not see the necessity for the constant presence of Congress at the Capitol. March 23, 26, 28, and 29, 1867; Works, vol. XI. pp. 168-177. April 11 and 12; Ibid., pp. 352, 353. July 19; Ibid., pp. 420-425. November 26; Works, vol. XII. pp. 250– 252. He de<
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)
of the President and the secretary. Nothing in the Memoir, which was set up as an afterthought, had weakened him. New York Herald, Jan. 14, 1878. Badeau's Grant in Peace, p. 202. That confidence continued. Davis's statement that on receiving, June 23, Motley's report of his first interview with Lord Clarendon, the President's first impulse on reading the despatch was to recall him on account of departure from his instructions, is disproved by the President's letter to Badeau, July 14, three weeks after the report was received, in which he writes: Grant in Peace, p. 468. Motley, on arriving at Liverpool, made brief replies to deputations from two chambers of commerce, in which he confined himself to platitudes about the duty of peace between two kindred nations. These were altogether harmless, and seemed well adapted to calm the disturbed English mind. It would have been thought churlish in him to have said less. But the President, reading the report by cable, was not, it ha