COLORED PHYSICIANS. Resolution and Remarks in the Senate, on the Exclusion of Colored Physicians from the Medical Society of the District of Columbia, December 9, 1869 186 THE LATE HON. WILLIAM PITT FESSENDEN, SENATOR OF MAINE. Remarks in the Senate on his Death, December 14, 1869 189 CUBAN BELLIGERENCY. Remarks in the Senate, December 15, 1869 195 ADMISSION OF VIRGINIA TO REPRESENTATION IN CONGRESS. Speeches in the Senate, January 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 19, 21, 1870 204 FINANCIAL RECONSTRUCTION AND SPECIE PAYMENTS. Speeches in the Senate, January 12, 26, February 1, March 2, 10, 11, 1870 234 MAJOR-GENERAL NATHANAEL GREENE, OF THE REVOLUTION. Speech in the Senate, on the Presentation of his Statue, January 20, 1870 299 PERSONAL RECORD ON RECONSTRUCTION WITH COLORED SUFFRAGE. Remarks in the Senate, January 21 and February 10, 1870 303 CHEAP OCEAN POSTAGE. RESOLUTION IN THE SENATE, DECEMBER 7, 1868. Whereas the inland postage on a letter throughout the United States is three cents, while the ocean postage on a similar letter to Great Britain, under a recent convention, is twelve cents, and on a letter to France is thirty cents, being a burdensome tax, amounting often to a prohibition of foreign correspondence, yet letters can be carried at less cost on sea than on land; and whereas, by increasing correspondence, and also by bringing into the mails mailable matter often now clandestinely conveyed, cheap ocean postage would become self-supporting; and whereas cheap ocean postage would tend to quicken commerce, to diffuse knowledge, to promote the intercourse of families and friends separated by the ocean, to multiply the bonds of peace and good-will among men and nations, to advance the progress of liberal ideas, and thus, while important to every citizen, it would become the active ally of the merchant, the emigrant, the philanthropist, and the friend of liberty: Therefore _Be it resolved_, That the President of the United States be requested to open negotiations with the European powers, particularly with Great Britain, France, and Germany, for the establishment of cheap ocean postage. THE LATE HON. THADDEUS STEVENS, REPRESENTATIVE OF PENNSYLVANIA. REMARKS IN THE SENATE ON HIS DEATH, DECEMBER 18, 1868.