RECONSTRUCTION AGAIN: GUARANTIES AND SAFEGUARDS AGAINST SLAVERY AND FOR PROTECTION OF FREEDMEN. Resolutions in the Senate, February 8, 1864 295 PRAYER OF ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND. Speech in the Senate, on presenting a Petition of the Women’s National League, praying Universal Emancipation by Act of Congress, February 9, 1864 300 EQUAL PAY OF COLORED SOLDIERS. Remarks in the Senate, on Different Propositions, February 10, 29, and June 11, 1864 304 OPENING OF THE STREET-CARS TO COLORED PERSONS. Speeches in the Senate, on Various Propositions, February 10, March 17, June 21, 1864 323 WRONG AND UNCONSTITUTIONALITY OF FUGITIVE SLAVE ACTS. Report in the Senate, of the Committee on Slavery and Freedmen, February 29, 1864 338 OUR FOREIGN RELATIONS: SHOWING PRESENT PERILS FROM ENGLAND AND FRANCE, NATURE AND CONDITION OF INTERVENTION BY MEDIATION AND ALSO BY RECOGNITION, IMPOSSIBILITY OF ANY RECOGNITION OF A NEW POWER WITH SLAVERY AS A CORNER-STONE, AND WRONGFUL CONCESSION OF OCEAN BELLIGERENCE. SPEECH BEFORE THE CITIZENS OF NEW YORK, AT THE COOPER INSTITUTE, SEPTEMBER 10, 1863. WITH APPENDIX. MARCUS. Quæro igitur a te, Quinte, sicut illi solent: Quo si civitas careat, ob eam ipsam causam, quod eo careat, pro nihilo habenda sit, id estne numerandum in bonis? QUINTUS. Ac maximis quidem. MARCUS. Lege autem carens civitas estne ob id ipsum habenda nullo loco? QUINTUS. Dici aliter non potest. MARCUS. _Necesse est igitur legem haberi in rebus optimis._ QUINTUS. Prorsus assentior. CICERO, _De Legibus_, Lib. II. cap. 5. * * * * * I have told, O Britons! O my brethren! I have told Most bitter truth, but without bitterness. Nor deem my zeal or factious or mistimed; For never can true courage dwell with them Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own vices. COLERIDGE, _Sibylline Leaves: Fears in Solitude_. * * * * * ’Tis therefore sober and good men are sad For England’s glory, seeing it wax pale And sickly. COWPER, _The Task_, Book V. 509-511. * * * * *