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THE

WORKS

OF

CHARLES SUMNER.

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

LEIBNITZ.

VOL. XII.

BOSTON:

LEE AND SHEPARD.

1877.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1877,

BY FRANCIS V. BALCH, EXECUTOR, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

UNIVERSITY PRESS: WELCH, BIGELOW, & Co.,

CAMBRIDGE.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME XII.

PROPHETIC VOICES CONCERNING AMERICA. A Monograph

EQUAL RIGHTS, whether POLITICAL OR CIVIL, BY ACT OF CON-

GRESS. Letter to the Border State Convention at Baltimore, Sep-

tember 8, 1867

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1

184

187

ARE WE A NATION? Address before the New York Young Men's

Republican Union, at the Cooper Institute, Tuesday Evening, No-

vember 19, 1867

CONSTANT DISTRUST OF THE PRESIDENT. Remarks in the Senate,

on the Final Adjournment, November 26, 1867

THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT: WITHDRAWAL OF ASSENT BY A

STATE. Remarks in the Senate, on the Resolutions of the Legis-

lature of Ohio rescinding its former Resolution in Ratification of

the Fourteenth Amendment, January 31, 1868

LOYALTY IN THE SENATE: ADMISSION OF A SENATOR. Remarks

in the Senate, on the Resolution to admit Philip F. Thomas as Sen-

ator from Maryland, February 13, 1868.

INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT. Letter to a Committee in New York,

on this Subject, February 17, 1868

250

253

257

THE IMPEACHMENT OF THE PRESIDENT. THE RIGHT OF THE PRESI-

DENT OF THE SENATE PRO TEM. TO VOTE. Remarks in the Sen-

ate, on the Question of the Competency of Mr. Wade, Senator from

Ohio, then President of the Senate pro Tem., to vote on the Im-

peachment of President Johnson, March 5, 1868

THE CHIEF JUSTICE, PRESIDING IN THE SENATE, CANNOT RULE OR

VOTE. Opinion in the Case of the Impeachment of Andrew John-

son, President of the United States, March 31, 1868

EXPULSION OF THE PRESIDENT. Opinion in the Case of the Impeach-

ment of Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, May 26,

1868

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