Omaha daily bee., 1874-04-01
SUMNER.
From Another Standpoint-Hotes
from Journal.

Mr.. Summers confidence was 4 sa.
cred trust, but the marble of death
opens the lips of silence to the state,
ment of many most interesting
facts. Hawthorne remarked of him
that she said more things worth re-
membering than any man he ever
knew that nis memory was an ar
gosie freighted with all sorts OF
knowledge, that he threw overheard
without STINT
Two o the hottest summers eve
known he stayed in Washington as
Mr.. Lincoln's confidential adviser,
and it was during this period that
Mr.. Seward said "Mr. Lincoln had
too many Secretaries of State" His
laborious correspondence with the
leading men of England, Bright,
Golden, Gladstone, Harcourt, Earl
of Carlisle, Duke of Argyll, and a
host of others, did much in mould
ing public opinion in favor of the
Union during the most critical per-
iod of the war, and timely words of
weight and wisdom in English jour
mails owed their inspiration to his
pen.
Soon after Chief Justice Taney's
death he showed a card from the
President, upon which was written:
"Hon. Charles Sumner. The vacant
Chief Justiceship is placed at your
disposal. q. LINCOLN"
HE THEN SAID:
"There was a time when this Of
fee would have been the realized
dream of my youth; but now it
must not, it cannot be. The breach
between Mr.. Chaise and the Presi-
dent is growing wider and wider,
and this will close it. No personal
sacrifice Is too great, nor can any
thing tempt me to desert my post.
The Republican party must remain
intact until its mission Is fulfilled /"
1t Is well known that only the
great Senator's persistency accom-
plished the appointment of Mr..
Chase, after a tedious delay from
October to December. Mr.. Chase
through life remained unconscious
of Mr.. Lincoln's offer and Mr.. Sum-
ner's refusal. Such was the delica-
cy of feeling that prominently
characterized his acts and efforts for
his friends. The simple autographs
card alone remains a witness that
ambition was not the infirmity of
his noble mind. Mr.. Lincoln often
spoke of him a,hfs standby" and
to him We're confide6 all the doubt
full questions of his foreign policy;
to n. P. Willis, the poet, and to
others he called him ''his good ge-
MUS" and to him, first of all, was
told that thrice-drempt dream that
preceded Lincoln's assassination.
Mr.. Sumner has
LEFT ON RECORD
his liking for MIR Lincoln, and of his
full appreciation of his wonderful
character, his patience, and his pa
triotism in times of trying troubles.
The cool fiat-boatman and the clas-
sic scholar fraternized, and found a
common cause in which to labor, to
suffer, and to die.
Sometimes he talked Oftrees as of
friends, and the old English elms of
Boston were his admiration. He
told me he thought he could distin-
guish with closed eyes what tree he
was near by the different melody of
the winds vibration through its
leaves. This was especially the
case with
HIS GREATEST FAvORITE
of all the evergreens, the pine. tree.
He watched with a gardeners inter-
est the acclimatization ofthe foreign
planted bv Downing in the
park in front ofhis residence-Cedars
of Lebanon and CryptoIneria Japon-
ica@saying ; "The ambassadors of
many countries come and go
change waits upon them, but these
gentle diplomates from the Orient
and Occident will stay with us al
ways"
Twas at his house in Boston when
he sold it, and after signing the
deed he said thoughtfully: ain this
house my dear mother lived and
died !; in this house / spent my boy
hood, and Ipart with it with a heart
full of sorrow, and with eyes full of
tears. There are none who can
ever love us with a mothers love.
No, not one" And for a few mo-
ments he was lost in a cloud of
memories of other days and other
years.
: During the tendency of the
SAN DOMINGO TREATY
Mr.. Sumner was offered, through
the Secretary of State, the mission
to England in place of Mr.. Motley.
Mr.. Fish called upon him at his
own house and rendered him the
appointment. In answer, Mr. Sum-
ner was brief and decisive. He in
dicated an infiexible determination
to remain In the Senate In prefer
ence to any appointment in the
gift Of the President. I believe this
was the last friendly interview be-
tween the two.
His transformations benevolence
was so quietly bestowed that none
but the recipient vas aware Of it,
and when quite i'll, so that he dis
liked to drive alone, he called for me
to accompany him to e the Ser
geant-at-Arms of the Senate about
one of the employees "a poor colored
woman) soon, as he thought, to be
discharged.
"THEY LOOK TO Me-"
said he, sand If / do not help them
who will? / expostulated with
him. He was so weak I feared the
consequences of his climbing up the
Senate steps, even with my assist
ance; yet he answered, smiling, i'm
the dying words of an Archbishop
of Paris: "Bonus pastor uninldm
sudnl dat pro OUi6us suis;;" ("The
good shepherd lays down his life
for his sleepy
In the winter of 1873, after recov-
arinp from, one Of his severe attacks