The Life of Lyman Trumbull

On the 22d of March, 1896, Trumbull made an argument before the Supreme Court at Washington City. On the 11th of April, although ailing from an unknown malady, he went to Bellev...

The nomination of Lincoln for President by the Republican National Convention in 1860 was a rather impromptu affair. In the years preceding 1858 he had not been accounted a part...

Early in 1867, Congress passed an act, originating in the Senate, to prevent the President from removing, without the consent of the Senate, any office-holders whose appointment...

On January 5, 1866, Trumbull introduced two measures which engrossed public attention during the next three months and enlarged the parting of the ways between Congress and the...

The subject of this memoir was born in Colchester, Connecticut, October 12, 1813. The Trumbull family was the most illustrious in the state, embracing three governors and other...

Trumbull took his seat in the Senate at the first session of the Thirty-fourth Congress, December 3, 1855. His credentials were presented by Senator Crittenden, of Kentucky. Sen...

The jaunty manner in which Secretary Seward administered the laws respecting the liberty of the citizen in the earlier years of the war is treated by John Hay with a humorous to...

My own feelings immediately after the nomination were set forth in a telegram to the Chicago _Tribune_ published in its issue of May 4. The chief part was in these words:

In June, 1856, Lincoln wrote to Trumbull urging him to attend the Republican National Convention which had been called to meet in Philadelphia to nominate candidates for Preside...

The Liberal Republicans of Missouri held a state convention at Jefferson City, January 24, 1872. They adopted a platform which affirmed the sovereignty of the Union, emancipatio...

The events described in the preceding chapter left Senator Douglas still the towering figure in national politics. Although he had contributed but a small part of the votes in t...

The repeal of the Missouri Compromise was the cause of Trumbull's return to an active participation in politics. The prime mover in that disastrous adventure was Stephen A. Doug...

During all this storm and stress the President-elect was at home struggling with office-seekers. They came in swarms from all points of the compass, and in the greatest numbers...

Trumbull goes to Belleville to attend the funeral of Gustave Koerner--Is taken with illness at hotel--On his return to his home he is found to be suffering from an internal tumo...

Probably no executive document was ever awaited with greater interest than the message transmitted to Congress yesterday. It is safe to say that none ever gave greater satisfact...

In company with other Senators, Trumbull went to the battle of Bull Run, July 21, 1861. His experience there he communicated to his wife, first by a brief telegram, and afterwar...

On the 17th of December, 1866, the Supreme Court rendered its decision in the Milligan case, which had reached that tribunal on a certificate of disagreement between the two jud...

The next event of world-wide concern was the assassination of President Lincoln, which took place April 14, 1865. It does not come within the scope of this work, except as it fi...

In November, 1867, General Ord, commanding the military district of Mississippi, arrested and imprisoned an editor named W. H. McCardle, for alleged libelous and incendiary publ...

James W. White, of New York City, writes, March 6, to ask Trumbull, as a member of the Seward Committee, whether it is a fact that President Lincoln had knowledge of the dispatc...

Early in the year 1862, it was found that the national credit was sinking in consequence of frauds in the War Department. A Committee on Government Contracts was appointed by th...

The demerits of the first Grant Administration were the principal cause of the Liberal uprising of 1872. They were enumerated in detail by Charles Sumner in open Senate, on May...

It looks at this distance as though the Republican party was "going to the dogs"--which, I think, is as it should be. Like all parties that have an undisturbed power for a long...

The defeat of the Liberal Republicans terminated Trumbull's official career. His senatorial term expired on the 3d of March, 1873. The regular Republicans carried the legislatur...

Mrs. Trumbull did not accompany her husband to Washington at the special session of Congress July 4, 1861. A few letters written to her by him have been preserved. One of these...

The Liberal Republican movement of 1872 took its start in Missouri. During the war between the states, Missouri had been a prey to a real civil war, in which much blood had been...

When the territory comprising the state of Illinois passed under control of the United States, negro slavery existed in the French villages situated on the so-called American Bo...

Donn Piatt, meeting William H. Seward on the street on the morning immediately after the issuing of the preliminary proclamation of emancipation, complimented him for his share...

While the events in the preceding chapter were transpiring, a joint committee on Reconstruction were making an inquiry into the condition of the ex-Confederate States in order t...

Trumbull makes an excursion with Senator Grimes to the battle of Bull Run--Is caught by the retreating Union army and driven back to Washington--His account of the panic and sta...

Trumbull's senatorial term expires in 1873--Not reëlected--He resumes the practice of law in Chicago--The second Grant administration worse than the first--The Republican party...

The Liberal Republican Convention in Missouri calls national convention at Cincinnati--Prompt and favorable response in Ohio and other states--Coöperation of leading Democrats--...

Trumbull's interview with William Cullen Bryant, and others, who oppose William H. Seward as a member of Lincoln's Cabinet--They consider Seward's coterie in New York corrupt an...

How Trumbull received the news--Carl Schurz advises Greeley to decline the nomination--Greeley decides to accept it--Meeting of Liberal Republican leaders in New York to conside...

W. H. McCardle, of Mississippi, arrested by General Ord for seditious publications--Takes an appeal to the Supreme Court--General Grant, as Secretary of War _ad interim_, retain...

The Tenure-of-Office Bill passed to curtail the President's power to remove office-holders--It does not apply to members of the Cabinet--The President vetoes it--The veto messag...

The Trumbulls from Newcastle-on-Tyne, England--Most illustrious family in Colony of Connecticut--Lyman Trumbull born and educated at Colchester--Begins his career as school-teac...

Trumbull introduces two bills to protect the freedmen in the states--Provisions of the Freedmen's Bureau Bill--Trumbull contends that the Thirteenth Amendment authorized Congres...

General Grant's habits and training were not well adapted to civil and political duties--He was nominated for President on account of his military success--Rottenness in the New...

Lincoln's first suspension of the writ of _habeas corpus_--Secretary Seward and John Hay give verbal instructions thereunder--Senate debate on arbitrary arrests--Wide difference...

The Senate appoints a committee to ask the President to recall the appointment of Harvey as Minister to Portugal--He had notified Governor Pickens of the Government's intention...

The National Republican Convention at Chicago in 1860--How Lincoln was nominated in preference to Seward--the Secession movement after the election--Trumbull makes a speech at S...

The national contest of 1856 results in the election of James Buchanan as President--The Republicans of Illinois elect their state ticket--The Kansas war continues--Buchanan app...

The movement in the Senate for the retirement of Secretary Seward--Letters from Gustave Koerner, Alfred Iverson, and Walter B. Scates--The appointment of M. W. Delahay as judge...

Death of Lincoln--Conflict of opinions concerning the status of the seceding states--Lincoln's proclamation of December, 1863--Reconstruction of Louisiana in pursuance thereof--...

French adventurers from Canada the first whites in Illinois--Followed by colonists from Louisiana--Slaves sent from Santo Domingo by John Law's Company of the Indies--Thomas Jef...

Decision of the Supreme Court in the Milligan case--It declares all trials of civilians by military commissions unlawful--It implies that Andrew Johnson's policy was preferable...

The Liberal Republican movement begins in Missouri--Its leaders--Enfranchisement of the ex-Confederates, civil service reform, and revenue reform, the issues--Meeting of revenue...

Excellent tone and temper of Johnson's first communication to Congress--Written by George Bancroft--Eulogy of the New York _Nation_--Johnson's early life and training--A first-r...

Senator Grimes's estimate of the Republican party in 1870--President Grant's methods of carrying on the Government--His attempt to annex Santo Domingo--Senate rejects the treaty...

Popularity of Douglas among the Eastern Republicans growing out of the Lecompton fight--Not shared by those of Illinois--The latter choose Lincoln as their candidate for Senator...

Senator Douglas and the repeal of the Missouri Compromise--Disruption of political parties--Trumbull announces himself a candidate for Congress in opposition to the Nebraska Bil...

Scope of Lincoln's Proclamation of Emancipation--Amendment of the Constitution to abolish slavery--First proposals by Wilson, of Iowa, and Henderson, of Missouri--Trumbull repor...

Cameron and Alexander Cummings--Two million dollars placed in New York subject to Cummings's draft--The steamer Catiline chartered and laden by Cummings and Thurlow Weed--The Ho...

The Joint Committee on Reconstruction reports the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution--It holds that the seceding states cannot be restored to their former places in the Un...

Trumbull takes his seat in the Senate--A protest is presented declaring him not eligible--It is overruled after debate--Disturbances in Kansas consequent upon the passage of the...