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With Introduction BY HON. GEORGE FRISBIE HOAR
COPYRIGHT, 1882, BY FRANCIS V. BALCH, EXECUTOR.
Statesman Edition. LIMITED TO ONE THOUSAND COPIES. OF WHICH THIS IS No. 320
COLORED SCHOOLS IN WASHINGTON. Speech in the Senate, February 8, 1871 1
HON. JOHN COVODE, LATE REPRESENTATIVE OF PENNSYLVANIA. Speech in the Senate, on his Death, February 10, 1871 12
ITALIAN UNITY AGAIN. Letter to a Public Meeting at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, February 21, 1871 15
VIOLATIONS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW, AND USURPATIONS OF WAR POWERS. Speech in the Senate, on his San Domingo Resolutions, March 27, 1871 16
PERSONAL RELATIONS WITH THE PRESIDENT AND SECRETARY OF STATE. AN EXPLANATION IN REPLY TO AN ASSAULT. Statement prepared for Presentation to the Senate, March, 1871 99
THE KU-KLUX-KLAN. Speech in the Senate, on the Bill to enforce the Provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, April 13, 1871 125
OUR DUTY AGAINST WRONG. Letter to the Reform League, New York, May 8, 1871 131
POWER OF THE SENATE TO IMPRISON RECUSANT WITNESSES. Speeches in the Senate, May 18 and 27, 1871 132
THE HAYTIAN MEDAL. Response to the Letter of Presentation, July 13, 1871 154
EQUALITY OF RIGHTS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Letter to George W. Walker, President of the Board of School Directors of Jefferson, Texas, July 28, 1871 158
PEACE AND THE REPUBLIC FOR FRANCE. Remarks in Music Hall, Boston, introducing M. Athanase Coquerel, of Paris, October 9, 1871 159
THE GREAT FIRE AT CHICAGO, AND OUR DUTY. Speech at Faneuil Hall, at a Meeting for the Relief of Sufferers at Chicago, October 10, 1871 161
RIGHTS AND DUTIES OR OUR COLORED FELLOW-CITIZENS. Letter to the National Convention of Colored Citizens at Columbia, South Carolina, October 12, 1871 164
ONE TERM FOR PRESIDENT. Resolution and Remarks in the Senate, December 21, 1871 168
THE BEST PORTRAITS IN ENGRAVING. Article in “The City,” an Illustrated Magazine, New York, January 1, 1872 175
EQUALITY BEFORE THE LAW PROTECTED BY NATIONAL STATUTE. Speeches in the Senate, on his Supplementary Civil Rights Bill, as an Amendment to the Amnesty Bill. January 15, 17, 31, February 5, and May 21, 1872 203