[Illustration: Engd. by A. H. Ritchie: EDWIN M. STANTON] _Statesman Edition_ _VOL. XVI_ Charles Sumner HIS COMPLETE WORKS With Introduction BY HON. GEORGE FRISBIE HOAR [Illustration] BOSTON LEE AND SHEPARD MCM COPYRIGHT, 1877, BY FRANCIS V. BALCH, EXECUTOR. COPYRIGHT, 1900, BY LEE AND SHEPARD. Statesman Edition. LIMITED TO ONE THOUSAND COPIES. OF WHICH THIS IS No. 320. Norwood Press: NORWOOD, MASS., U.S.A. CONTENTS OF VOLUME XVI. PAGE EQUAL RIGHTS, WHETHER POLITICAL OR CIVIL, BY ACT OF CONGRESS. Letter to the Border State Convention at Baltimore, September 8, 1867 1 ARE WE A NATION? Address before the New York Young Men’s Republican Union, at the Cooper Institute, Tuesday Evening, November 19, 1867 3 CONSTANT DISTRUST OF THE PRESIDENT. Remarks in the Senate, on the Final Adjournment, November 26, 1867 66 THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT: WITHDRAWAL OF ASSENT BY A STATE. Remarks in the Senate, on the Resolutions of the Legislature of Ohio rescinding its former Resolution in Ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment, January 31, 1868 69 LOYALTY IN THE SENATE: ADMISSION OF A SENATOR. Remarks in the Senate, on the Resolution to admit Philip F. Thomas as Senator from Maryland, February 13, 1868 73 INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT. Letter to a Committee in New York, on this Subject, February 17, 1868 86 THE IMPEACHMENT OF THE PRESIDENT. THE RIGHT OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE PRO TEM. TO VOTE. Remarks in the Senate, on the Question of the Competency of Mr. Wade, Senator from Ohio, then President of the Senate pro Tem., to vote on the Impeachment of President Johnson, March 5, 1868 88 THE CHIEF JUSTICE, PRESIDING IN THE SENATE, CANNOT RULE OR VOTE. Opinion in the Case of the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, March 31, 1868 98