Political discussions, legislative, diplomatic, and popular, 1856-1886

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Political discussions: Nomination of Frémont for president

The national issues of 1860

Confiscation of rebel property

Speech of Mr. Blaine accepting his first nomination to Congress

Can the country sustain the expense of the war, and pay the debt which it will involve?

Presidential election of 1864 ; Lincoln against McClellan

Futility of attempting to equalize gold, silver, and paper money by legislation

New basis of representation in Congress

The Fourteenth Amendment as a basis of reconstruction

Shall the late rebels wield the entire civil power of the South?

National honor in the payment of the national debt

Taxation of United States Bonds

Grant and Seymour compared

Mr. Burlingame as an orator

The nomination of Horace Greeley as a presidential candidate

Mr. Blaine's seventh and last nomination as representative in Congress from the Kennebec District

Municipal debt in the United States

The Democratic Party and the Constitutional amendments

Shall Jefferson Davis be restored to full citizenship?

Remonetization of silver

The Halifax award

Trade with South America

The progress of the north-west

Southern abuse of elective franchise

Speech of Mr. Blaine at the dinner of the New England Society of New York, Dec. 23, 1878

Chinese immigration to the Pacific slope

Chinese immigration

Chinese immigration

False issue raised by the Democratic Party

National sovereignty against state sovereignty ; Position of Mr. Webster

Eulogy of Senator Chandler

Ought the Negro to be disfranchised? Ought he have been enfranchised?

Encouragement to American ship-building and the revival of American commerce on the ocean. Diplomatic correspondence: Clayton-Bulwer treaty and interoceanic canal

Arbitrary arrests in Ireland

Oppression of the Hebrews in Russia

Dispatches concerning the war between Peru, Chili, and Bolivia

Our friendly relations with Mexico

The United States and the Hawaiian Kingdom

Assassination of Alexander III, Emperor of Russia

Baron Steuben's family at Yorktown

France proposes joint intervention in South America in war

Proposed peace congress of American states. Political discussions: Withdrawal of invitations to peace congress

Foreign policy of the Garfield administration

Mr. Blaine's letter accepting the Republican nomination for the presidency in 1884

Speeches before the people during the presidential canvass of 1884

After the presidential election of 1884

Memorial services in honor of General Grant in Augusta, Maine, Aug. 8, 1885

The Irish question

Political issues in 1886

Memorial address