EXPULSION OF THE PRESIDENT. Opinion in the Case of the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, May 26, 1868 134 CONSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITY OF SENATORS FOR THEIR VOTES IN CASES OF IMPEACHMENT. Resolutions in the Senate, June 3, 1868 227 VALIDITY AND NECESSITY OF FUNDAMENTAL CONDITIONS ON STATES. Speech in the Senate, June 10, 1868 230 ELIGIBILITY OF A COLORED CITIZEN TO CONGRESS. Letter to an Inquirer at Norfolk, Va., June 22, 1868 255 INDEPENDENCE, AND THOSE WHO SAVED THE ORIGINAL WORK. Letter on the Soldiers’ Monument at North Weymouth, Mass., July 2, 1868 256 COLORED SENATORS,--THEIR IMPORTANCE IN SETTLING THE QUESTION OF EQUAL RIGHTS. Letter to an Inquirer in South Carolina, July 3, 1868 257 FINANCIAL RECONSTRUCTION THROUGH PUBLIC FAITH AND SPECIE PAYMENTS. Speech in the Senate, on the Bill to fund the National Debt, July 11, 1868 259 NO REPRISALS ON INNOCENT PERSONS. Speech in the Senate, on the Bill concerning the Rights of American Citizens, July 18, 1868 297 THE CHINESE EMBASSY, AND OUR RELATIONS WITH CHINA. Speech at the Banquet by the City of Boston to the Chinese Embassy, August 21, 1868 318 THE REBEL PARTY. Speech at the Flag-Raising of the Grant and Colfax Club, in Ward Six, Boston, on the Evening of September 14, 1868 326 ENFRANCHISEMENT IN MISSOURI: WHY WAIT? Letter to a Citizen of St. Louis, October 3, 1868 331 ISSUES AT THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. Speech at the City Hall, Cambridge, October 29, 1868 333 EQUAL RIGHTS, WHETHER POLITICAL OR CIVIL, BY ACT OF CONGRESS. LETTER TO THE BORDER STATE CONVENTION AT BALTIMORE, SEPTEMBER 8, 1867. September 12, 1867, Tennessee, Delaware, Maryland, Missouri, Kentucky, and the District of Columbia were fully represented in what was called “the Border State Convention,” which assembled in the Front Street Theatre, Baltimore. The object, in the language of the call, was “to advance the cause of manhood suffrage, and to demand of Congress the passage of the Sumner-Wilson bill.” The following letter from Mr. Sumner was read to the Convention. BOSTON, September 8, 1867. DEAR SIR,--I shall not be able to be with you at your Convention in Baltimore, according to the invitation with which you have honored me. I ask you to accept my best wishes.