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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)
art for giving him the last that was and is to be on earth of our noble, loyal, genial friend, Sir Frederick. From the family and the British Legation Sumner received grateful acknowledgments. Lady Augusta Stanley, her husband, and Thomas Charles Bruce wrote letters in tender recognition of his offices, grateful that one whom they had long known and honored was with their brother in his last hours. The dean, when the remains had been deposited in the ancient burial-place of the Bruces in Scotland, sent Sumner a picture of the Abbey Church at Dunfermline, where, as he said, on the day of interment, the eye rested on the Frith of Forth, the distant hills, and the Castle of Edinburgh,—all radiant with the sunshine in which he [Sir Frederick] so delighted, and of which he was so full. In 1879 Dean Stanley went with the writer about Westminster Abbey, and taking him to the chapel where Lady Augusta had been laid in 1876, pointed to some carvings on the wall commemorative of the Bruce
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)
acts, and had made these statements knowing them to be falsehoods. The general offered, as he said at the time to Mr. Curtis, to prove his assertion by the records of the state department, and afterwards gave Mr. Curtis a list which he had procured from it (G. W. Curtis in the New York Herald, Nov. 13, 1877; Harper's Weekly, Dec. 8. 1877, March 16, 1878). General Grant, however, in an interview at Cairo, reported in the New York Herald, Feb. 22, 1878, disclaimed so much of the interview in Scotland as made him impute intentional falsehood to Sumner. It is, however, curious to note that the main subject of this interview was the leader in Harper's Weekly, Dec. 8, 1877, which explicitly stated that, as now shown by the divulged records of the Senate Sumner had done his full duty as to the treaties; and the list, therefore, of unreported treaties sent by the general to Mr. Curtis was not a true one. Nevertheless, the general kept on in the interview repeating in detail his original cha
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 57: attempts to reconcile the President and the senator.—ineligibility of the President for a second term.—the Civil-rights Bill.—sale of arms to France.—the liberal Republican party: Horace Greeley its candidate adopted by the Democrats.—Sumner's reserve.—his relations with Republican friends and his colleague.—speech against the President.—support of Greeley.—last journey to Europe.—a meeting with Motley.—a night with John Bright.—the President's re-election.—1871-1872. (search)
Multis ille bonis flebilis occidit: Nulli flebilior, quam mihi. A few moments after parting with friends at the deanery, he was on the train to visit the Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth, leaving the great city for the last time. It had been his purpose to visit the Argylls at Inverary, but he had not the time to go so far north. The duchess had written him several letters, expressing the most earnest desire that he should not fail to come. When she found that he was unable to visit Scotland even for a day, she wrote: I cannot wish you to spoil your time of rest by a fatiguing journey, but I assure you it is a great disappointment to me. At last, as he sailed, she replied to his farewell letter in a note of plaintive tone: If the time has done you good, perhaps you will come again. I should not like to think I am not to meet you in this life again. God knows, and one is thankful. He alone knows the solemn future. From Chatsworth he went to Rochdale. Mr. Bright described,
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, chapter 19 (search)
hat Mr. Sumner did not report six or seven treaties; nor by Mr. Howe, Mr. Hamlin, Mr. Cameron, and Mr. Anthony, when they explained in the Senate the cause of the removal, April 28, 1874; nor by General Grant, in his interviews in 1877– 1878, in Scotland or in Egypt; nor by Mr. Fish, in his five appearances before the public in October, November, and December, 1877. But it is, for the first time, made by Mr. Davis, Jan. 3, 1878, nearly seven years after Mr. Sumner's removal, and almost four yeanator. 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 eve