Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustration. See 48376-h.htm or 48376-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/48376/48376-h/48376-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/48376/48376-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/completeworks11sumnuoft [Illustration: F. T. Stuart, Boston: WENDELL PHILLIPS] Statesman Edition VOL. XI CHARLES SUMNER HIS COMPLETE WORKS With Introduction by Hon. George Frisbie Hoar [Illustration] Boston Lee and Shepard MCM Copyright, 1873 and 1874, 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 XI. PAGE EXCLUSION OF WITNESSES ON ACCOUNT OF COLOR. Report in the Senate, of the Committee on Slavery and Freedmen, February 29, 1864 1 THE MISSION TO BELGIUM. Speech in the Senate, on an Amendment to the Consular and Diplomatic Appropriation Bill, March 15, 1864 43 CONSULAR PUPILS. Speech in the Senate, on an Amendment to the Consular and Diplomatic Appropriation Bill, March 15, 1864 49 THE LATE HON. OWEN LOVEJOY, OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Speech in the Senate, on the Resolutions upon his Death, March 29, 1864 54 COLORED SUFFRAGE IN THE TERRITORY OF MONTANA. Speeches in the Senate, on an Amendment to the Bill for a Temporary Government of that Territory, March 31 and May 19, 1864 62 CLAIMS ON FRANCE FOR SPOLIATIONS OF AMERICAN COMMERCE PRIOR TO JULY 31, 1801. Report in the Senate, of the Committee on Foreign Relations, April 4, 1864 70 NO PROPERTY IN MAN: UNIVERSAL EMANCIPATION WITHOUT COMPENSATION. Speech in the Senate, on the Constitutional Amendment abolishing Slavery throughout the United States, April 8, 1864 173 CASTE AND PREJUDICE OF COLOR. Letter to the Young Men’s Association of Albany, April 16, 1864 228 FINAL REPEAL OF ALL FUGITIVE SLAVE ACTS. Speech in the Senate, on a Bill for this Purpose, April 19, 1864 229 THE NATIONAL BANKS AND THE CURRENCY. Speeches in the Senate, on Amendments to the Bill providing a National Currency, April 27 and May 5, 1864 245 BRANCH MINTS AND COINAGE. Speech in the Senate, on the Proposition to create a Branch Mint in Oregon, April 29, 1864 263