favors Stockton in N. J. election contest, [261] ff.;
in debating his Amendment to Civil Rights bills, speaks again on power of Congress to pass laws for ordinary administration of justice in States, [265]-[267];
answered by Saulsbury, [267]-[268];
quotes Gaston as to citizenship of free negroes, [270];
his great speech in reply to Johnson's message vetoing Civil Rights bill, [272];
the Nation, quoted, on his speech, [273];
his leading position in the campaign of 1866, [273];
opposed to Ku-Klux bill of 1871, [275], [356], [357], [358];
reëlected Senator (1866), [277];
sustains Johnson until veto of Civil Rights bill, [277], [278];