PRUDENCE IN OUR FOREIGN RELATIONS. Remarks in the Senate, on Resolutions against French Interference in Mexico, February 3, 1863 257 EMPLOYMENT OF COLORED TROOPS. Bill in the Senate, February 9, 1863 262 IMMEDIATE EMANCIPATION, AND NOT GRADUAL. Speech in the Senate, on the Bill providing Aid for Emancipation in Missouri, February 12, 1863 266 LETTERS OF MARQUE AND REPRISAL. Speeches in the Senate, on the Bill to authorize the President, in all Domestic or Foreign Wars, to issue Letters of Marque and Reprisal, February 14 and 17, 1863 278 APPOINTMENTS TO THE NAVAL ACADEMY. Remarks in the Senate, on the Bill to regulate the Appointment of Midshipmen to the Naval Academy, February 16, 1863 301 EXEMPTION OF CLERGYMEN FROM MILITARY CONSCRIPTION. Remarks on the Conscription Law, February 16, 1863 303 PROTEST AGAINST FOREIGN INTERVENTION, AND DECLARATION OF NATIONAL PURPOSE. Concurrent Resolutions of Congress, reported in the Senate, February 28, 1863 307 INEXPEDIENCY OF LETTERS OF MARQUE. Letter to a Citizen of New York, March 17, 1863 313 UNITY FOR THE SAKE OF FREEDOM, AND FREEDOM FOR THE SAKE OF UNITY. Letter to a Public Meeting at Cleveland, Ohio, May 18, 1863 316 PACIFIC RAILROAD. Letter to Messrs. Samuel Hallett & Co., May 23, 1863 318 UNION OF THE MISSISSIPPI AND THE LAKES BY CANAL. Letter to a Convention at Chicago, May 27, 1863 320 THE ISSUES OF THE WAR. Dedication of a New Edition of the Speech on the Barbarism of Slavery, July 4, 1863 322 LET COLORED MEN ENLIST. Letter to a Convention at Poughkeepsie, New York, July 13, 1863 325 RIGHTS OF SOVEREIGNTY AND RIGHTS OF WAR: TWO SOURCES OF POWER AGAINST THE REBELLION. SPEECH IN THE SENATE, ON HIS BILL FOR THE CONFISCATION OF PROPERTY AND THE LIBERATION OF SLAVES BELONGING TO REBELS, MAY 19, 1862. Wherefore he deserves to be punished, not only as an enemy, but also as a traitor, both to you and to us. And indeed treason is as much worse than war as it is harder to guard against what is secret than what is open,--and as much more hateful, as with enemies men make treaties again, and put faith in them, but with one who is discovered to be a traitor nobody ever enters into covenant, or trusts him for the future.--XENOPHON, _Hellenica_, Book II. ch. 3, § 29.