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railroad, 109; presidential election, 110; message on 

 education, 110; Panama, 110; telegraphs, 110; inde- 

 pendence of Spanish Antilles, 110; Darien Canal 

 treaty, 110; United States exploring expedition, 110; 

 Atrato route, 111; Medill's plan for surface canal, 

 111. 



COLTER, Kev. NATHANIEL, D. D. Birth, 111; death, 111; 

 in War of 1812, 111; temperance and an tislavery advo- 

 cate, 112; founder of Tremont Temple, Boston, 112; 

 establishes " Colver Institute " at Eichmond, 112. 



Commerce of United Stales. Trade with Canada, 112; 

 imports, 112; reexports, 112; exports, 112; foreign 

 exports at New York, 112; goods entered for con- 

 sumption, 113; for warehousing, 113; free, 113; specie, 

 113; withdrawals from warehouse, 113; customs at 

 New York, 113; classes of merchandise arrived, 114; 

 exports from New York, 114; comparative commerce 

 of New York, 114; tonnage of United States, 114; 

 ship-building, 115; entrances and clearances from 

 United States for British North America, 115. 



Congregationalism. Convention in New York, 115; Pil- 

 grim Memorial Convention at Chicago, 115; American 

 Board of Foreign Missions, 115; Hawaiian churches, 

 115; missionary funds contributed by native Christians, 

 115; statistics of missions, 116; American Home Mis- 

 sionary Society, 116; Congregationalism in Great 

 Britain, 116; France, 116; Switzerland, 116; member- 

 ship, 116. 



Congress, United States. Second session of the Forty- 

 first convenes, 117. In the Senate a bill to define and 

 regulate the jurisdiction and powers of the Supreme 

 Court, 117; a bill to repeal appellate jurisdiction in 

 habeas corpus cases presented, 118; do. to remove all 

 political disabilities, 118; resolution to annul all po- 

 litical disabilities, 118; do. relative to a denial of the 

 protection of the law, 118; do. on a paper currency, 

 118; do. on repudiation, 118; do. on a tariff, 118. 



In the Senate, a bill to perfect reconstruction in 

 Georgia, 119; amendment offered, 120; wholly un- 

 necessary, 120; ratification made under duress, 120; 

 the rebel States should be made to feel the power of 

 this nation, 120; a direct impeachment of the whole 

 reconstruction policy, 120; this. is not a question 

 which concerns simply the State of Georgia, 121; 

 what is the effect of coercing Georgia to adopt the 

 amendment? 121; we want an evidence of their 

 change of purpose since secession, 121. There are a 

 doctrine and a principle within the present measure 

 which may be returned like a poisoned chalice, 122; 

 proceedings in Georgia, 122; the coercion imposed 

 on Georgia by the proposed amendment, 123; who is 

 to determine when an amendment to the Constitution 

 is ratified ? 123; the question as to what is the Con- 

 stitution belongs to the political department of the 

 Government, 123; there is no coercion about it, 124; 

 no excuse or apology for the action of Georgia, 124; 

 eminently desirable to obtain the free adoption by 

 that people of the fifteenth amendment, 125; the rati- 

 fication by three-fourths absolutely null and void, 125; 

 let us test it, 125; important that the fifteenth amend- 

 ment should be ratified, 125; important that we should 

 require Georgia to ratify this amendment, 126; an ex- 

 planation, 126; without this requirement Georgia will 

 not ratify, 126; what power is legitimate to organize 

 a government for Georgia, 127; shall Congress divest 

 the people of Georgia of this power ? 127; if the State 

 will come under the radical banner, all will be right, 

 12T; attempt to justify these proceedings, 128; the 

 provisions of the bill, 128; it is not Georgia alone 

 that is interested, 129; what a spectacle to present to 



the world I 129; vote on the amendment, 120; agreed 

 to, 130; Georgia did all that your acts under the 

 fourteenth amendment required, and now it is pro- 

 posed to take her in hand again, 130; two reasons 

 given, 130; proceedings of her Legislature, 130; no 

 members disqualified, 131; can you reinstate the ne- 

 groes? 181; bill passed, 131. 



In the House, the bill from the Senate passed after 

 a brief debate, 131; vote, 131. 



In the House, the bill to admit the State of Georgia 

 to representation in Congress considered, 132; the 

 features of the bill, 132; facts respecting Georgia, 132; 

 admission of members to this House, 133; hesitation 

 of the Senate, 133; their report, 133; theory upon 

 which this bill is urged, 134; object to prolong the 

 term of office of the men who now control the State, 

 134; its avowal, 134; design to establish a principle 

 that will authorize Congress to seize any State, 134; 

 the bill passed, 135; the vote, 135. 



In the Senate, the House bill considered, 135; an 

 additional section moved, 135; the Bingham amend- 

 ment objected to, 135; its adoption by the House has 

 been regarded as a rebel victory, 135; position of the 

 Senator from Illinois, 136; position taken by tthe Sen- 

 ator from Vermont, 136; when does a State govern- 

 ment of a new State go into operation ? 136; the true 

 doctrine, 137; shall men take advantage of their own 

 wrong ? 137; shall the Bingham amendment, prohibit- 

 ing the State government to continue in oflBce, tic 

 stricken from the bill? 137; progress of reconstruc- 

 tion in Georgia, 137, 138; it is claimed that the State 

 Legislature may continue its existence for two years, 

 139; on what ground? 139; the act of admission re- 

 lates back, 139; estopped from accepting any such 

 doctrine, 139; no case in the world can be clearer, 

 140; as plain and flagrant an attempt at usurpation in 

 Georgia as ever marked the course of any men seek- 

 ing power by illegitimate means, 140; the Bingham 

 amendment words of despair to loyal men, 140; 

 sources of power in Congress, the two constitutional 

 amendments, 140; also three other sources, each of 

 which is overflowing, 140; necessity of the case, 140; 

 guarantee clause, 140; e pluribus itnum, 141; this 

 guarantee invoked for the protection of Georgia, 141; 

 act of March 2, 1867, 141; several courses open to Con- 

 gress all equally within its powers, 142; Congress a 

 High Court of Equity with Georgia at its bar, 142; 

 what is the meaning of all this wild talk about the 

 Constitution being construed in the light of modern 

 progress ? 142; can Congress do any one of these 

 things which the provisions of the Constitution say it 

 shall not do? 143; we are engaged in the transaction 

 of grave and important business, 143; features of the 

 bill, 143; can Congress deny to a State, in the form of 

 a condition contained in the act of admission, a 

 power secured to the State by the Constitution of the 

 United States? 144; fundamental principles to be 

 borne in mind in every constitutional discussion, 144; 

 can they point out the provision which confers the 

 power in this case? 144; views of Senators, 144; 

 amendment offered, 145; lost, 145; another offered, 

 145; substitute proposed, 145; adopted, 145; other 

 amendments moved and adopted or rejected, 140; 

 bill passed, 147. 



In the House, the bill reported with amendments 

 of the Senate, 147; amendments added and the bill 

 passed, 147; Senate refuse to concur, 147; conference, 

 148. 



In the Senate, a resolution offered to admit Virginia 

 to representation in Congress, 148; she has complied 





