JUBILEE OF LIBERTY. Letter to the Young Men's Republican Union of New York, November 10, 1864 MR. ASHLEY AND RECONSTRUCTION. Letter to a Public Banquet in Honor of Hon. James M. Ashley, at Toledo, Ohio, November 18, CASE OF THE FLORIDA: ILLUSTRATED BY PRECEDENTS OF BRITISH RELATIONS WITH GREAT BRITAIN: THE ST. ALBANS RAID. Speech in the Senate, on a Bill for Fortifications and Batteries on the TERMINATION of the CANADIAN RECIPROCITY TREATY. Speeches in the Senate, on the Joint Resolution giving Notice for the Ter- mination of the Canadian Reciprocity Treaty, December 21, 1864, FREEDOM OF WIVES AND CHILdren of ColoRED SOLDIERS. Speech in the Senate, on a Joint Resolution for this Purpose, January 5, THE LATE HON. EDWARD EVERETT. Telegraphic Despatch to Joint Committee of the Legislature of Massachusetts, January 16, 1865 TERMINATION OF TREATIES BY NOTICE. Remarks in the Senate, on a Joint Resolution to terminate the Treaty of 1817 regulating the RETALIATION, AND TREATMENT OF PRISONERS OF WAR. Speeches in the Senate, on a Joint Resolution advising Retaliation, January ADMISSION OF A COLORED LAWYER TO THE BAR OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES. Motion in the Supreme Court, PARTICIPATION OF REBEL STATES NOT NECESSARY IN RATIFICATION 193 198 200 201 206 229 233 APPORTIONMENT OF REPRESENTATIVES ACCORDING TO VOTERS. Proposed Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, RAILROAD USURPATION IN NEW JERSEY. Speech in the Senate, on a Bill to regulate Commerce among the several States, February 14, 1865 REPRESENTATION OF VIRGINIA IN THE SENATE. Remarks in the Senate, on the Credentials of Hon. Joseph Segar, of Virginia, No BUST FOR AUTHOR OF DRED SCOTT DECISION. Speech in the Senate, on a Bill providing for a Bust of the Late Chief Justice NO RECONSTRUCTION WITHOUT THE VOTES OF THE BLACKS. Re- marks in the Senate, on the Resolution recognizing the New State NO PICTURE AT THE CAPITOL OF VICTORY OVER FELLOW-CITI- ZENS. Remarks in the Senate, on Joint Resolution authorizing a FREE SCHOOLS AND FREE BOOKS. Remarks in the Senate, on an UNJUST ARREST AND PROSECUTION OF TWO BOSTON MERCHANTS. Protest and Opinion on the Case of the Messrs. Smith Brothers, RESPECT FOR THE MEMORY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. Resolution adopted at a Meeting of Senators and Representatives, April 17, 237 HOPE AND ENCOURAGEMENT For Colored FELLOW-CITIZENS. Let- ter to the Editor of "The Leader," in Charleston, S. C., May, PROMISES OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, AND ABRA- IDEAS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. Letter to the Mayor of Boston, on the Celebration of National Independence, CONSENT OF THE GOVERNED NECESSARY IN THE NEW GOVERN- QUORUM OF STATES NECESSARY IN ADOPTION OF A CONSTITU- SELF-SACRIFICE FOR THE COLORED RACE. EQUESTRIAN STATUE OF COLONEL SHAW, FIRST COMMANDER OF MASSACHUSETTS COLORED TROOPS. Article in the Boston Daily Advertiser, Oc- tober 2, 1865 THE LATE RICHARD COBDEN. Letter to Mrs. Cobden, covering Reso- lutions of the Republican State Convention of Massachusetts, Oc- THE NATIONAL SECURITY AND THE NATIONAL FAITH: GUARAN- CLEMENCY AND COMMON SENSE. A CURIOSITY OF LITERATURE; 429 430 432 433 MAKE HASTE SLOWLY: IRREVERSIBLE SPEECH IN THE SENATE, ON THE RECOGNITION OF ARKANSAS, JUNE 13, 1864. JUNE 10th, Mr. Lane, of Kansas, asked, and by unanimous consent obtained, leave to bring in a joint resolution for the recognition of the Free State Government of the State of Arkansas, which was read, passed to a second reading, and ordered to be printed. June 13th, he called it up for consideration, when Mr. Sumner made the following speech. R. PRESIDENT,-I begin by expressing sym MR. pathy with every loyal soul in a Rebel State. Knowing well, from long experience, the cruel rule and domination of Slavery, even in this Chamber, I cannot be indifferent to the trials of loyalty anywhere in these latter days. Show me a man who in a Rebel State stands faithful to the national cause, and I go forth to meet him with heart in hand. To have been true at a time when truth was disowned is enough for honor as well as thanks. But the merits of individuals cannot determine the rights of States. The case is too important. If individual merits, universally recognized, could save a State to present rights in the Union, Tennessee would not now be a self-condemned exile. There are few anywhere so entirely true. as Andrew Johnson, and not one in all the Rebel States VOL. IX. 1 A who so bravely encountered the Rebellion face to face. Ten men might have saved Sodom; but he was in himself more than ten men. Besides, he was a Senator on this floor, when the State he represented took its place in the Rebel Confederacy, and joined in war against the National Government; but he stayed behind with his country, and kept his seat here. Persons ignorant of Parliamentary Law have sometimes argued from the latter circumstance that Rebel Tennessee was still entitled to her ancient rights in the Union; but they forget two principles, fixed long ago, beyond all question, in England, the original home of Parliamentary Law: first, that the power once conferred by an election to Parliament is irrevocable, so that it is not affected by any subsequent change in the constituency; and, secondly, that a member, when once chosen, is member for the whole kingdom, becoming thereby, according to the words of an early author, not merely knight or burgess of the county or borough which elected him, but knight or burgess of England. If these two principles are not entirely discarded in our political system, then the seat of Andrew Johnson was not in any respect affected by the subsequent madness of his State, nor can the legality of his seat be any argument for the ancient rights of his State. Nor, again, can the fact that Andrew Johnson has been selected by the Convention of a powerful political party as candidate for the Vice-Presidency be any argument for these ancient rights. It is not necessary that a candidate for President or Vice-President should be 1 Whitelocke, Notes upon the King's Writ for choosing Members of Parliament, Vol. II. p. 329 Cushing, Law and Practice of Legislative Assemblies, p. 284. |
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