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CONTENTS OF VOLUME XVII.

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[Cheap Ocean Postage. Resolution in the Senate, December 7, 1868]1
[The Late Hon. Thaddeus Stevens, Representative of Pennsylvania. Remarks in the Senate on his Death, December 18, 1868]2
[Claims of Citizens in the Rebel States. Speeches in the Senate, 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 Oligarchy of the Skin. Speech in the Senate, February 5, 1869]34
[Claims on England,—Individual and National. Speech on the Johnson-Clarendon Treaty, in Executive Session of the Senate, 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 Republican 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 Payments, December 7, 1869]184
[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]186
[The Late Hon. William Pitt Fessenden, Senator of Maine. Remarks in the Senate on his Death, December 14, 1869]189
[Cuban Belligerency. Remarks in the Senate, December 15, 1869]195
[Admission of Virginia to Representation in Congress. Speeches in the Senate, January 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 19, 21, 1870]204
[Financial Reconstruction and Specie Payments. Speeches in the Senate, January 12, 26, February 1, March 2, 10, 11, 1870]234
[Major-General Nathanael Greene, of the Revolution. Speech in the Senate, on the Presentation of his Statue, January 20, 1870]299
[Personal Record on Reconstruction with Colored Suffrage. Remarks in the Senate, January 21 and February 10, 1870]303