Charles Sumner; his complete works, volume 9 (of 20)

CONTENTS OF VOLUME IX.

RIGHTS OF SOVEREIGNTY AND RIGHTS OF WAR: TWO SOURCES OF POWER AGAINST THE REBELLION.

NO SURRENDER OF FUGITIVE SLAVES IN WASHINGTON.

INFORMATION IN REGARD TO FREEING SLAVES BY OUR ADVANCING ARMIES.

HELP FROM SLAVES, WITH RECIPROCAL PROTECTION IN THEIR RIGHTS AS MEN.

TAX ON COTTON.

TAX ON SLAVE-MASTERS.

PROPER DESPATCH OF BUSINESS.

SHUTTING UP OF COLORED SCHOOLS BY THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT OF NORTH CAROLINA.

STAND BY THE ADMINISTRATION.

POWER OF CONGRESS vs. MILITARY GOVERNMENT OF STATES.

AIR-LINE RAILROAD BETWEEN WASHINGTON AND NEW YORK.

ABOLITION AND PROHIBITION OF SLAVERY IN WEST VIRGINIA.

WAR POWERS OF CONGRESS: CONFISCATION AND LIBERATION.

PRIZE-MONEY AND ITS POLICY.

THE RANK OF ADMIRAL.

TESTIMONY OF COLORED PERSONS IN THE COURTS OF THE UNITED STATES.

PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENTS AND RECONSTRUCTION.

TAXES ON KNOWLEDGE.

CONSTITUTIONAL QUORUM OF THE SENATE.

PROTEST AGAINST FINAL ADJOURNMENT OF CONGRESS.

PATRIOTIC UNITY AND EMANCIPATION.

HARMONY WITH THE PRESIDENT AND EMANCIPATION.

UNION OF GOOD CITIZENS FOR A FINAL SETTLEMENT.

THE PROCLAMATION OF EMANCIPATION: ITS POLICY AND NECESSITY AS A WAR MEASURE FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF THE REBELLION.

THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION OUR CORNER-STONE.

FARMERS, THEIR HAPPINESS AND LIBERAL SENTIMENTS.

AMBULANCE AND HOSPITAL CORPS.

CELEBRATION OF EMANCIPATION.

PRUDENCE IN OUR FOREIGN RELATIONS.

EMPLOYMENT OF COLORED TROOPS.

IMMEDIATE EMANCIPATION, AND NOT GRADUAL.

LETTERS OF MARQUE AND REPRISAL.

APPOINTMENTS TO THE NAVAL ACADEMY.

EXEMPTION OF CLERGYMEN FROM MILITARY CONSCRIPTION.

PROTEST AGAINST FOREIGN INTERVENTION, AND DECLARATION OF NATIONAL PURPOSE.

INEXPEDIENCY OF LETTERS OF MARQUE.

UNITY FOR THE SAKE OF FREEDOM, AND FREEDOM FOR THE SAKE OF UNITY.

PACIFIC RAILROAD.

UNION OF THE MISSISSIPPI AND THE LAKES BY CANAL.

THE ISSUES OF THE WAR.

LET COLORED MEN ENLIST.

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