INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



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C02TDIT, EOBEKT W., D. D. Obituary of, 570. 



Uongregatlonalists. National Council, 128; permanent or- 

 ganization, 128; constitution, 128, 129; declaration on 

 unity of the Church, 129; acts of the council, 129; by- 

 laws, 129; membership of Council, 130; mission-work 

 in Catholic countries, 130; division of missions with 

 Presbyterian Board, 130; mission statistics, 130; 

 American Missionary Association, 130; work among 

 colored people at the South, 130; churches, minis- 

 ters, and members in 1871, 131; statistics in Great 

 Britain, 131; statistics in France, 131. 



Congress, United States. Third session'of the Forty-first, 

 convenes, 132; resolution relative to the Monroe doc- 

 trine, 132; do., relative to the annexation of Dominica, 

 133; do., relative to treaty with Dominica, 133; do., 

 relative to a system of revenue and expenditure, 133; 

 do., relative to revenue reform, 134; do., relative to 

 political disabilities, 134. 



In the House, a bill relative to reconstruction re- 

 ported, 134; no more important subject will be pre- 

 eented to Congress, 136; power of the Executive to 

 grant reprieves and pardons, 136; intention of the 

 bill, 137; excepted cases, 137; other exceptions, 137; 

 substitute proposed, 137; amendment moved, 137; 

 another substitute proposed, 137; a general removal 

 of all disabilities from all classes of men, 138; what 

 the effect and extent of these sweeping provisions, 

 138; take the case of General Pillow, 138; this is a bill 

 making odious discriminations, 138; holds out the 

 promise to the ear but breaks it to the heart, 139; 

 extraordinary provisions of this bill, 139 ; shook every 

 man's sense of justice, 139; little in this bill to com- 

 mend it to the House, 139; pledge given to go for 

 amnesty, 140; I want no half-way work, 140; this bill 

 a very singular and incongruous mixture, 140; comes 

 from the Committee on Reconstruction, which is a 

 political committee, 140; it is in no sense an amnesty 

 bill, 141; it is a property-grabbing bill, 141; if the 

 spirit of Sherman's agreement with Johnston had 

 been observed, there would have been no need of this 

 measure, 141; four amendments pending, 141; bill 

 postponed, 142. 



In the House, a bill reported prescribing an oath of 

 office, 142; its provisions, 142; effect of the passage 

 of the bill, 142; repeals the test-oath for every man 

 who took part in the rebellion, 142; peculiar state of 

 affairs, that the loyal people should be required to take 

 the test-oath, 143; where is the necessity of continuing 

 the test-oath at all ? 143; are we prepared to take this 

 step in the dark? 143; bill passed, 144. 



In the House, a bill to enforce the fifteenth amend- 

 ment considered, 144; it is absolutely atrocious, 144; 

 it is the crowning act of centralization and consolida- 

 tion, 145; has its origin in the interest of a desperate 

 and unscrupulous party, 145; details of the bill, 145; 

 the title is an untruth, 146; it reaches every town 

 with a population of twenty thousand, 146; power to 

 arrest is conferred on supervisors at the polls, 146; 

 the military made subject to the deputy-marshal, 146; 

 the marshals have complete immunity from all lia- 

 bility to State or municipal authority, 147; allows 

 military interference with elections, 147; the neces- 

 sity of the bill, 147; the constitutional power to enact 

 it, 148 ; substitute offered, 148-151 ; amendments 

 moved, 152; bill passed, 152. 



In the Senate, the above bill considered, 153; off- 

 epring of a bill of the last session, 153; it assumes 

 the powers of the General Government to superintend 

 registrations and elections in the States, 153; the pow- 

 er given to the States, 153; reason, 153; Congress can 



only interfere to perpetuate the Government to pre- 

 vent its dissolution, 153; what does the bill propose? 

 154; its passage, 154. 



In the Senate, a motion to take np the resolution 

 relative to San Domingo, 155; another resolution sub- 

 mitted, 155; both are of interest to the people, 155; 

 motion to refer to Committee on Foreign Relations, 

 155; object of introducing the resolution, 156; treaty 

 not ratified, 156; is the Senate ready to recede? 156; 

 we are asked to take a wide departure from the origi- 

 nal policy of the Government, 156; what are the facts ? 

 156; the present incorporation of that people with us 

 is not desirable, 157; motion to go into executive 

 session lost, 157; the resolution commits Congress 

 to a dance of blood, 157; it commits Congress to the 

 policy of annexation, 157; I will not accept the 

 policy, 158; some facts about the negotiation, 158; 

 Baez has been sustained in power by the presence of 

 our naval force ever since the negotiation, 159; all 

 there are said to be in favor of annexation, 159; the 

 claims of Hayti wrongfully interdicted, 160; no pru- 

 dent man buys a lawsuit, 160. 



Nearly all the Senator's points are immaterial, 160; 

 the protocol, 160 ; the resolution simply provides for 

 an examination, 161; it is said the resolution is unne- 

 cessary, 161 ; he would have been denounced if he had 

 appointed commissioners without consulting us, 161 ; 

 the annexation of San Domingo will come, 161 ; grounds 

 of opposition to annexation stated, 162; advice to the 

 Senator from Massachusetts, 162; where then were 

 you who now talk of nothing but freedom? 162; are 

 you prepared to bring such a people into the United 

 States? 163; motion to refer lost, 163; resolution 

 adopted, 163. 



In the House, joint resolution relative to San Do- 

 mingo amended, 163; adopted, 163; amendment con- 

 curred in by the Senate, 164. 



In the Senate, a resolution to appoint a committee 

 to investigate affairs in the Southern States, offered, 

 164; objected to, 164; motion to refer the papers to a 

 special committee, 164; they present an appalling 

 record, 164; had the whole subject here at the last 

 session, 165; are these new charges ? 165; a periodical 

 performance, 165; why turn them into capital for a 

 party? 165; the record of the last dozen years does 

 not justify such imputations, 166; thousands of men 

 have lost their lives, 166; this Administration com- 

 menced with the words "Let us have peace," 166; 

 object of the resolution to obtain some pretext to place 

 the Southern people under martial law, 166; motion 

 agreed to, 166. 



In the Senate, a motion to consider the bill to pro- 

 mote commerce among the States, 167; can Congress 

 authorize the construction of a railroad passing 

 through different States, under the power to regulate 

 commerce, 167; grave considerations involved in the 

 bill, 167; the exercise of a dangerous power, 167; 

 Congress has the power to govern these railroads, 

 168; pass some bill that will test the question, 168; 

 bill laid aside, 168; session closed, 168. 



First session of Forty-second Congress commenced, 

 168; in the House, a bill to repeal the duties on salt 

 considered, 169; bill passed, 169; a joint resolution 

 to repeal the duties on coal considered, 169; do., 

 passed, 170; bill to place tea and coffee on the free 

 list of imports, considered, 170; passed, 170; resolu- 

 tions relative to a financial policy considered, 171; 

 referred to Committee of Ways and Means, 171. 



In the Senate, a resolution offered to limit the busi- 

 ness of the session, 171; adoption, 171; another reso- 



