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Veniet fortasse aliud tempus, dignius nostro, quo, debellatis odiis, veritas triumphabit. Hoc mecum opta, lector, et vale.

LEIBNITZ.

VOL. XIII.

BOSTON:

LEE AND SHEPARD.

1880.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1880,

BY FRANCIS V. BALCH, EXECUTOR,

in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

UNIVERSITY PRESS: JOHN WILSON AND SON,

CAMBRIDGE.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME XIII.

CHEAP OCEAN POSTAGE. Resolution in the Senate, December 7, 1868

THE LATE HON. THADDEUS STEVENS, REPRESENTATIVE OF PENN-

SYLVANIA. Remarks in the Senate on his Death, December 18,

1868

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1

CLAIMS OF CITIZENS IN THE REBEL STATES. Speeches in the Sen-

ate, January 12 and 15, 1869 .

10

TRIBUTE TO HON. JAMES HINDS, REPRESENTATIVE OF ARKANSAS.

Speech in the Senate, January 23, 1869.

32

POWERS OF CONGRESS TO PROHIBIT INEQUALITY, CASTE, AND Ol-

IGARCHY OF THE SKIN. Speech in the Senate, February 5, 1869

34

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CLAIMS ON ENGLAND, INDIVIDUAL AND NATIONAL. Speech on

the Johnson-Clarendon Treaty, in Executive Session of the Sen-

ate, April 13, 1869.

53

LOCALITY IN APPOINTMENT TO OFFICE. Remarks in the Senate,

April 21, 1869

94

NATIONAL AFFAIRS AT HOME AND ABROAD. Speech at the Repub-

lican State Convention in Worcester, Massachusetts, September

22, 1869 .

98

THE QUESTION OF CASTE. Lecture delivered in the Music Hall,

Boston, October 21, 1869

131

CURRENCY. Remarks in the Senate, on introducing a Bill to amend

the Banking Act, and to promote the Return to Specie Pay-

ments, December 7, 1869

COLORED PHYSICIANS. Resolution and Remarks in the Senate, on

the Exclusion of Colored Physicians from the Medical Society

of the District of Columbia, December 9, 1869

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