NATURALIZATION LAWS: NO DISCRIMINATION ON ACCOUNT OF COLOR. Remarks in the Senate, July 2 and 4, 1870 144 THE REPUBLICAN PARTY: ITS PAST AND FUTURE WORK. Speech at a Ratification Meeting in Faneuil Hall, October 15, 1870 169 THE DUEL BETWEEN FRANCE AND GERMANY, WITH ITS LESSON TO CIVILIZATION. Lecture in the Music Hall, Boston, October 26, 1870 175 THE PATRIOT DEAD AT ARLINGTON. Speech in the Senate, on a Joint Resolution to remove their Remains, December 13, 1870 254 NABOTH’S VINEYARD. Speech in the Senate on the Proposed Annexion of San Domingo to the United States, December 21, 1870 257 NEW YEAR’S DAY. Article in the New York Independent, January 5, 1871 300 ITALIAN UNITY. Letter to a Public Meeting at the Academy of Music in New York, January 10, 1871 307 RESPONSE TO A TOAST. Remarks at a Complimentary Dinner to Colonel John W. Forney, at Washington, January 28, 1871 310 DUTY OF THE YOUNG COLORED LAWYER. Address at the Commencement Exercises of the Law Department of Howard University at Washington, February 3, 1871 314 CHARITY TO FRANCE OR GERMANY? Speech in the Senate, February 4, 1871 319 ADMISSION OF MISSISSIPPI TO REPRESENTATION IN CONGRESS. SPEECH IN THE SENATE, FEBRUARY 17, 1870. February 8, 1870, Mr. Trumbull, from the Committee on the Judiciary, to whom had been referred a bill from the House for the admission of Mississippi to representation in Congress, with conditions the same as in the case of Virginia, reported it back with an amendment striking out all these, and admitting the State unconditionally. In a speech, February 17th, in reference to the proposed amendment, Mr. Sumner said:-- MR. PRESIDENT,--Throughout the long struggle anterior to the Rebellion, and then throughout the Rebellion itself, Slavery had two voices by which it was heard in this Chamber and in the country. The first was that by which its continued existence was vindicated, or, if you please, the right of Slavery; the other was that of State Rights. By these two voices was Slavery heard. Happily, the first is silenced; but the other is still sounding among us, crying out against those generous efforts by which Human Rights are assured.