SUFFRAGE WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF COLOR THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES BY ACT OF CONGRESS. Remarks in the Senate, on a Bill to enforce Several Provisions of the Constitution by securing the Elective Franchise to Colored Citizens, July 12, 1867 229 OPENING OF OFFICES TO COLORED PERSONS IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Remarks in the Senate, on a Bill for the further Security of Equal Rights in the District of Columbia, July 16, 1867 234 NATURALIZATION WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF RACE OR COLOR. Remarks in the Senate, on a Bill to strike out the Word “White” in the Naturalization Laws, July 19, 1867 238 THE PRESIDENT MUST BE WATCHED BY CONGRESS, OR REMOVED. Speech in the Senate, on the Resolution of Adjournment, July 19, 1867 240 SYMPATHY WITH CRETE, AND AN APPEAL TO THE TURKISH GOVERNMENT. Joint Resolutions in the Senate, July 19, 1867, and July 21, 1868 246 PRIVILEGES OF DEBATE IN THE SENATE ON OFFICERS LIABLE TO IMPEACHMENT. Resolutions in the Senate, July 20, 1867 249 PROPHETIC VOICES CONCERNING AMERICA. A Monograph 251 THE CESSION OF RUSSIAN AMERICA TO THE UNITED STATES. SPEECH IN THE SENATE, ON THE RATIFICATION OF THE TREATY BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND RUSSIA, APRIL 9, 1867. Thirteen governments founded on the natural authority of the people alone, without a pretence of miracle or mystery, and _which are destined to spread over the northern part of that whole quarter of the globe_, are a great point gained in favor of the rights of mankind.--JOHN ADAMS, _Preface to his Defence of the American Constitutions_, dated Grosvenor Square, London, January 1, 1787: Works, Vol. IV. p. 293. * * * * * Barbarous and stupid Xerxes, how vain was all thy toil to cover the Hellespont with a floating bridge! Thus rather wise and prudent princes join Asia to Europe; they join and fasten nations together, not with boards or planks or surging brigandines, not with inanimate and insensible bonds, but by the ties of legitimate love, chaste nuptials, and the infallible gage of progeny.--PLUTARCH, _Morals_, ed. Goodwin, Vol. I. p. 482. * * * * *