Excerpt from Charles Sumner and the Treaty of Washington This is a succinct as well as an accurate summary of the proceeding. It is not necessary in the present discussion to notice further the Motley affair. Evidently ill at ease regarding the reason assigned at the time for Sumner's removal, Grant in 1877, six years after the removal and three years after Sumner's death, in two inter views, one in Scotland, and the other at Cairo; and Fish in the same year, in several newspaper letters and interviews put forward as the ...
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Excerpt from Charles Sumner and the Treaty of Washington This is a succinct as well as an accurate summary of the proceeding. It is not necessary in the present discussion to notice further the Motley affair. Evidently ill at ease regarding the reason assigned at the time for Sumner's removal, Grant in 1877, six years after the removal and three years after Sumner's death, in two inter views, one in Scotland, and the other at Cairo; and Fish in the same year, in several newspaper letters and interviews put forward as the ground of the removal, dereliction of duty on Sumner's part in failing to report in due time several treaties sent to the Senate and there referred to Sumner's committee during the session following the removal of Motley. Into this phase of the controversy it is not necessary to go farther than to say that friends of Sumner procured the removal of secrecy from the Senate records covering the period named, the last year of Sumner's service as chairman, and the charge of neglect of duty as specified by Grant and Fish was shown to be wholly unfounded. In January, 1878, J. C. Bancroft Dav1s, who had been one of Fish's assistant secretaries, appeared in an elaborate letter in the New York Herald, 1 in which, after again putting forward the disproved charge of neglect of duty on Sumner's part, he brought out, for the first time, so far as the present writer has discovered, a certain memorandum which he alleged was sent by Sumner to Fish, January 17, 1871, by which he claimed that Sumner put himself in entire Opposition to any possible settlement of the pending controversy between Eng land and the United States growing out of our Civil War. It does not appear that this memorandum, as exploited by Davis, was effective to change the general judgment upon the cause or merits of Sumner's removal, or indeed that it has ever hitherto attracted much attention in any quarter. Now, how ever, thirty years after the event, Mr. Adams takes up the theme, and while not asserting that the fact of this memoran dum, or any other of the reasons given for Sumner's removal. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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