INDEX OF CO.NT1 



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rnment n-l.-itive to Btcamor II. It. ('inter, l-i", ; 

 State election*, 128; threat* of revolution in riindlim- 

 marca, 19! ; renewal of charter of Panama It. It. Com- 

 pany, 



Colorado. Area and physical features, ISO ; mining, 127 ; 

 bill for Its admitision, K'7 ; the Legislature, 127; elec. 

 tlon, 1-J7; finances, 127; resources, 147. 



Comment of the United Staff . Exports and Imports, 

 spun* of Southern products, 127, 128; exports 

 of cotton, 128; foreign trade, 128; foreign importa- 

 tions at New York, 128; foreign exports from New 

 York, i-.it ; foreign yearly Importations Into U. 8. from 

 ., 129 ; exportation, 1860 to 18(17, U'.i. 



Congregationalism, 129; statistics, 129; organization of 

 Clerical Union, 129; church education, 129; finances 

 of American Congregational Union, 130 ; action against 

 secret societies, 130 ; foreign missions, 130 ; Congre- 

 gationalism In Great Britain, 130; London Missionary 

 Society, 130; summary of statistics, 130. 



Conyrtts, U. S. Second session of the Thirty-ninth con- 

 vened, 131 ; list of members, 131. 



In the Senate, a motion to consider the bill regulating 

 suffrage in the District of Columbia, 131 ; the bill la 

 impartial restricted suffrage, 131 ; our power over the 

 question of suffrage in this District, 132; universal 

 suffrage, 132; manhood suffrage, 132; objections, 182; 

 the American principle, 132 ; proposition to place suf- 

 frage upon republican principle, 133 ; amendments of- 

 fered, 133 ; we have gone beyond all beginnings now, 

 : arc moving in tin- right direction, 133; the quali- 

 fication of intelligence should be Incorporated in the 

 bill, i:!3; hard to provide any rule that shall operate 

 equally, 134; the bill a model for the States, 134 ; mon- 

 strous to apply the reading and writing qualification to 

 a class who were legislated away from school, 134 ; the 

 reading amendment rejected, 134; motion to strike 

 out the word "male," 134; can one give any better 

 -on for the exclusion of females from the right of 

 suffrage than there is for the exclusion of negroes ? 

 134; suffrage a right derived from society, 134; the 

 true- basis is Intelligence and virtue, 131 ; no argument 

 to say women do not want the ballot, 135 ; no right to 

 assume they are KitisnYd with the representation of 

 men, 135 ; the exercise of political power by women is 

 by no means an experiment, 135; who will be harmed 

 if negroes vote ? 135 ; no fear of negro suffrage if you 

 allow female suffrage with it, 130 ; what is necessary to 

 make a republican government stand forever, 136; 

 why should there be any restriction? 136: exclusion is 

 a brand of Cain, 136; issue of universal suffrage, 137; 

 the two questlono should not be connected, 137 ; suf- 

 frage not extended to ladies anywhere in the country, 

 137 ; males are admitted that they may be called to de- 

 feml the country in war, 137; society has not the right 

 to limit suffrage on any ground of race, color, 0| 

 138 ; the bill ie one of the systematic assaults to be 

 made on the fundamental principles of American au- 

 tonomy and liberty, 138; classes incompetent for self- 

 government should be excluded from suffrage, 138 ; 

 those who resist the extension of suffrage in this 

 country will be unsuccessful in their opposition, 138; 

 a large extension of suffrage will corrupt and degrade 

 elections, and probably lead to their complete abroga- 

 tion hereafter, 139; the head of the family is the true 

 base upon which to rest suffrage, 139 ; motion to strike 

 out the word "male" lost, 139; amendment that the 

 voter shall be able to read and write moved, 139; no 

 injustice to say to a man that before he can vote be 

 must give evidence of his capacity, 140; to write a 

 name Is simply a mechanical operation 140 to make 



t hlit a standard U a mockery, l to ; other methods, 140 ; 

 there can bo no safety In Ignorant suffrage, 1>; a*- 

 M rt.-ii that freed men know enough to know their 



i II ; consequence* 



franchise, l ll ; clearly two sides to the reading ques- 

 tion, 141 ; the action In the IM-trlct of Columbia, the 

 beginning of great things, 142; intelligence of m<-u 

 not able to read, 142 ; opportunities of colored people, 

 1 I-.: ; importance of Intelligence, 143; amendim-nt- 

 whii -h have been offun-il. n-;; who concerned In the 

 bill, 113; amendment rejected, 148; passage of the bill, 

 148; vetoed by the President. 111. 



In the Senate, veto of the District of Columbia Bill 

 con-ill. Ted, ill; aqueation as to who shall vote, 144 ; 

 peculiarly a question for Congress to deternii. 

 what right have the white people to say negroes shall 

 not vote? 144; objections of the President considered, 

 144 ; not time to try the experiment, 145 ; not the place 

 for the experiment, 145 ; this the time .nd pla< 

 it, 145 ; to say the people affected by the measure shall 

 have no voice in It, is laying the axe at the root of the 

 tree of liberty, 145; what will be the line when the 

 negro votes in this district, 146 ; of what use is the 

 ballot to the negro ? 146 ; a question of dominion, 146 ; 

 is it right to force this measure upon the people of this 

 District ? 147; passage of the bill in both Houses, 147. 



In the Senate, the bill for the admission of Nebraska 

 considered, 148 ; seeking now to obliterate the word 

 " white " from all institutions and constitutions 

 there, 148; features of the bill, 148; amendment 

 offered relative to the elective franchise in this 

 Territory, 148; what right have you to say a State 

 shall be admitted not on an equality with every 

 other State ? 149 ; Nebraska is not a State now, and ex 

 eluded from this action, 149; is this proposition fair 

 to the people? 149; terms of the late enabling act, 

 149; the late proposition to the Southern States, 150; 

 we have got to be ruled by those people or rule them, 

 150; no desire to exclude Nebraska from the Union. 

 150 ; It only proposes, when the State comes in, that It 

 shall only be on the explicit ground that there shall 

 be no denial of the rights of citizenship on the ground 

 of color, 150; the broad doctrine of the equality of the 

 States has been asserted here, 151 ; the terms of the 

 enabling act have not been complied with, 151 ; the 

 principle of the amendment, 151 ; another kindred 

 doctrine, 152; distinction between this measure and 

 the legislation for the District of Columbia, l.V.'; tin; 

 admission of Tennessee, 152; the case of Missouri 

 cited, 153 ; the proposition hostile to the Constitution 

 of the United States, 153 ; can we override the Consti- 

 tution? 158; nothing to do with the negro question, 

 154 ; is this State constitution presented to us by the 

 people of Nebraska in accordance with the Declaration 

 of Independence? 151 ; the rL'ht to vote is not one of 

 those rights referred to in that Declaration, 154; the 

 people of Nebraska have not violated the condition 

 prescribed in the enabling act, 155; these Territories 

 have fairly and substantially complied with all the 

 conditions imposed upon them, 155 ; the thing which 

 Congress is authorized to do is the admission of the 

 State into the Union, 155 ; the condition said to bo of 

 no practical importance, 155 ; this is a Union of equal 

 s-at,-s, 156; the authority of Congress to affix con- 

 ditions to the admission of a State, 156; what rL-ht 

 can you take away? 157; power to adopt the amend- 

 ment, 157 ; what is a republican form of government, 

 157; every government is republican in form which 

 corresponds with the governments in existence when 

 the Constitution was adopted, 158; I shall vote for 



