Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustration. See 48170-h.htm or 48170-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/48170/48170-h/48170-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/48170/48170-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/completeworks08sumnuoft [Illustration: A. W. Elson & Co. Boston: JOHN A. ANDREW] Statesman Edition VOL. VIII CHARLES SUMNER HIS COMPLETE WORKS With Introduction by Hon. George Frisbie Hoar [Illustration] Boston Lee and Shepard MCM Copyright, 1872, By Charles Sumner. Copyright, 1900, By Lee and Shepard. Statesman Edition. Limited to One Thousand Copies. of Which This Is No. 565 Norwood Press: Norwood, Mass., U.S.A. CONTENTS OF VOLUME VIII. PAGE REVISION AND CONSOLIDATION OF THE NATIONAL STATUTES. Resolution and Speech in the Senate, December 12, 1861 1 DENIAL OF PATENTS TO COLORED INVENTORS. Resolution and Remarks in the Senate, December 16, 1861 6 THE NATIONAL ARMIES AND FUGITIVE SLAVES. Resolution and Remarks in the Senate, December 18, 1861 7 EXPULSION OF TRUSTEN POLK, OF MISSOURI. Resolution and Remarks in the Senate, December 18, 1861 12 EMANCIPATION AND THE PRESIDENT. Letter to Governor Andrew, of Massachusetts, December 27, 1861 14 THE TRENT CASE, AND MARITIME RIGHTS. Speech in the Senate, on the Surrender of Mason and Slidell, Rebel Agents, taken from the British Mail Steamer Trent, January 9, 1862. With Appendix 15 OFFICE OF SENATOR, AND ITS INCOMPATIBILITY WITH OTHER OFFICE. Remarks in the Senate, on the Case of General Lane, of Kansas, January 13, 1862 105 EXPULSION OF JESSE D. BRIGHT, OF INDIANA. Speeches in the Senate, January 21 and February 4, 1862 114 ANSWER OF A WITNESS CRIMINATING HIMSELF. Remarks in the Senate, on the Bill relating to Witnesses before Committees, January 22, 1862 152 LIMITATION OF DEBATE IN THE SENATE. Remarks in the Senate, on a Five Minutes’ Rule, January 27 and 29, 1862 155 INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION AT LONDON. Speech in the Senate, on the Joint Resolution providing for Representation there, January 31, 1862 157 ORDER IN BUSINESS: EACH QUESTION BY ITSELF. Remarks in the Senate, February 6, 1862 161