Transcriber’s Note: There is a printer’s error in footnote 102; the Statutes at Large volume reference is missing from the original. [Illustration: HAMILTON FISH] Statesman Edition VOL. XVII Charles Sumner HIS COMPLETE WORKS With Introduction BY HON. GEORGE FRISBIE HOAR [Illustration] BOSTON LEE AND SHEPARD MCM COPYRIGHT, 1880, BY FRANCIS V. BALCH, EXECUTOR. COPYRIGHT, 1900, BY LEE AND SHEPARD. Statesman Edition. LIMITED TO ONE THOUSAND COPIES. OF WHICH THIS IS No. Extra Norwood Press: NORWOOD, MASS., U.S.A. CONTENTS OF VOLUME XVII. PAGE CHEAP OCEAN POSTAGE. Resolution in the Senate, December 7, 1868 1 THE LATE HON. THADDEUS STEVENS, REPRESENTATIVE OF PENNSYLVANIA. Remarks in the Senate on his Death, December 18, 1868 2 CLAIMS OF CITIZENS IN THE REBEL STATES. Speeches in the Senate, January 12 and 15, 1869 10 TRIBUTE TO HON. JAMES HINDS, REPRESENTATIVE OF ARKANSAS. Speech in the Senate, January 23, 1869 32 POWERS OF CONGRESS TO PROHIBIT INEQUALITY, CASTE, AND OLIGARCHY OF THE SKIN. Speech in the Senate, February 5, 1869 34 CLAIMS ON ENGLAND,--INDIVIDUAL AND NATIONAL. Speech on the Johnson-Clarendon Treaty, in Executive Session of the Senate, April 13, 1869 53 LOCALITY IN APPOINTMENT TO OFFICE. Remarks in the Senate, April 21, 1869 94 NATIONAL AFFAIRS AT HOME AND ABROAD. Speech at the Republican State Convention in Worcester, Massachusetts, September 22, 1869 98 THE QUESTION OF CASTE. Lecture delivered in the Music Hall, Boston, October 21, 1869 131 CURRENCY. Remarks in the Senate, on introducing a Bill to amend the Banking Act, and to promote the Return to Specie Payments, December 7, 1869 184