WAR POWERS OF CONGRESS: CONFISCATION AND LIBERATION. Speech in the Senate, on the House Bill for the Confiscation of Property and the Liberation of Slaves belonging to Rebels, June 27, 1862 128 PRIZE MONEY AND ITS POLICY. Remarks in the Senate, June 30, 1862 148 THE RANK OF ADMIRAL. Remarks in the Senate, on the Bill to establish the Grades of Navy Officers, July 2, 1862 150 TESTIMONY OF COLORED PERSONS IN THE COURTS OF THE UNITED STATES. Speeches in the Senate, on an Amendment to two different Bills, one relating to the Judiciary, and the other to the Competency of Witnesses, July 3 and 15, 1862 152 PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENTS AND RECONSTRUCTION. Remarks in the Senate, on a Bill to establish Provisional Governments in Certain Cases, July 7, 1862 162 TAXES ON KNOWLEDGE. Remarks in the Senate, on the Duties upon Imported Books and Rags, July 8, 1862 166 CONSTITUTIONAL QUORUM OF THE SENATE. Speech in the Senate, on a Resolution declaring the Constitutional Quorum, July 12, 1862 169 PROTEST AGAINST FINAL ADJOURNMENT OF CONGRESS. Remarks in the Senate, on a Resolution for the Final Adjournment of the Two Houses, July 12, 1862 176 PATRIOTIC UNITY AND EMANCIPATION. Letter to a Public Meeting at New York, July 14, 1862 180 HARMONY WITH THE PRESIDENT AND EMANCIPATION. Speech in the Senate, on the Joint Resolution explanatory of the Act for Confiscation and Liberation, July 16, 1862 182 UNION OF GOOD CITIZENS FOR A FINAL SETTLEMENT. Letter to the Republican State Committee, September 9, 1862 187 THE PROCLAMATION OF EMANCIPATION: ITS POLICY AND NECESSITY AS A WAR MEASURE FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF THE REBELLION. Speech at Faneuil Hall, October 6, 1862. With Appendix, on the Nomination and Reëlection of Mr. Sumner as Senator 191 THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION OUR CORNER-STONE. Letter to Fellow-Citizens at Salem, October 10, 1862 247 FARMERS, THEIR HAPPINESS AND LIBERAL SENTIMENTS. Speech at the Dinner of the Hampshire County Agricultural Society, at Northampton, Mass., October 14, 1862 248 AMBULANCE AND HOSPITAL CORPS. Resolution in the Senate, December 3, 1862 255 CELEBRATION OF EMANCIPATION. Letter to a Public Meeting of Colored Citizens in Boston, January 1, 1863 256