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Charles Sumner Senate Chamber protest manuscript

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Description: Protest and second protest (upon being requested to appear before a Committee appointed by the Senate to investigate the sale of Arms to France) against the formation and constitution of the Committee as contrary to Parliamentiary Law, autograph manuscript with portions in hand of a clerk. Bound with portrait of Sumner. (32 pages).
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1872 March 26.
Call number: mssHM 788
Creator: Sumner, Charles (1811-1874)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Provenance unknown. In library as of January 1994.
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Charles Sumner papers

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Primarily letters from Charles Sumner to Elizabeth Georgiana (Leveson-Gower) Campbell, Duchess of Argyll regarding relations of the United States with Great Britain and British opinion of the Civil War; letters also discuss Reconstruction and Andrew Johnson.

mssHM 51903-51972

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Charles Sumner correspondence

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Letters from Charles Sumner to Elizabeth Georgiana Leveson-Gower Campbell, Duchess of Argyll, American sculptor and writer William Wetmore Story, and others, concerning the relations of the United States with Great Britain and British opinion of the Civil War; national politics in the years immediately preceding, during and after the war, President Andrew Johnson, travels in England, France, and Italy, and law and literature.

mssHM 25934-25991

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Charles Sumner correspondence

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mssHM 25934-25991

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Charles Sumner "Monopoly" speech:

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Autograph draft of a speech in the Senate on a bill to regulate commerce among the several states with some insertions in other hands (56 pages).

mssHM 897

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James Buchanan, Senate Chamber, Washington, D.C., letter to Charles Pascall :

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Buchanan writes that he has received the memorials from the saddlers and harness makers of Philadelphia but that the Senate is prohibited by the constitution from originating any bill to increase duties on foreign imports. He thinks it would advisable that the memorials or a portion of them be presented in the House, where bills must originate.

mssHM 4711

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Charles Sumner letter to Salmon P. Chase

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Letter to Salmon P. Chase discussing Lincoln's visit to Richmond on April 9, 1865 and the plans for Reconstruction: "Never was I more convinced of the utter impossibility of any organization which is not founded on the votes of the negroes."

mssHM 21702

Charles Sumner Senate Chamber protest manuscript

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