href="@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@50160@[email protected]#PRECAUTION_AGAINST_THE_REVIVAL_OF" class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">Precaution against the Revival of Slavery. Remarks in the Senate, on a Resolution and the Report of the Judiciary Committee, January 3 and February 20, 1867
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| Protection against the President. Speeches in the Senate, on an Amendment to the Tenure-of-Office Bill, January 15, 17, and 18, 1867 |
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| Denunciation of the Coolie Trade. Resolution in the Senate, from the Committee on Foreign Relations, January 16, 1867 |
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| Cheap Books and Public Libraries. Remarks in the Senate, on Amendments to the Tariff Bill reducing the Tariff on Books, January 24, 1867 |
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| Cheap Coal. Speech in the Senate, on an Amendment to the Tariff Bill, January 29, 1867 |
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| A Single Term for the President, and Choice by Direct Vote of the People. Remarks in the Senate, on an Amendment of the National Constitution, February 11, 1867 |
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| Reconstruction at Last with Colored Suffrage and Protection against Rebel Influence. Speeches in the Senate, on the Bill to provide for the more Efficient Government of the Rebel States, February 14, 19, and 20, 1867 |
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| The Department of Education. Remarks in the Senate, on the Bill to establish a Department of Education, February 26, 1867 |
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| Monuments to Deceased Senators. Remarks in the Senate, on a Resolution directing the Erection of such Monuments, February 27, 1867 |
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| A Victory of Peace. Speech in the Senate, on a Joint Resolution giving the Thanks of Congress to Cyrus W. Field, March 2, 1867 |
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| Further Guaranties in Reconstruction. Loyalty, Education, and a Homestead for Freedmen; Measures of Reconstruction not a Burden or Penalty. Resolutions and Speeches in the Senate, March 7 and 11, 1867 |
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| Generosity for Education. Speech in the Senate, on a Joint Resolution giving the Thanks of Congress to George Peabody, March 8, 1867 |
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| Reconstruction again. The Ballot and Public Schools open to All. Speeches in the Senate, on the Supplementary Reconstruction Bill, March 15 and 16, 1867 |
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| Prohibition of Diplomatic Uniform. Speech in the Senate, on a Joint Resolution concerning the Uniform of Persons in the Diplomatic Service of the United States, March 20, 1867 |
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| Vigilance against the President. Remarks in the Senate, on Resolutions adjourning Congress, March 23, 26, 28, and 29, 1867 |
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| Loyalty and Republican Government Conditions of Assistance to the Rebel States. Remarks in the Senate, on a Joint Resolution authorizing Surveys for the Reconstruction of the Levees of the Mississippi, March 29, 1867 |
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MAJORITY OR PLURALITY IN THE ELECTION OF SENATORS.
Speech in the Senate, on the Contested Election of Hon. John P. Stockton, of New Jersey, March 23, 1866.
The seat of Hon. John P. Stockton, as Senator from New Jersey, was contested at this session of the Senate, on the ground of irregularity in the election. The Judiciary Committee, by their Chairman, Mr. Trumbull, reported that he “was duly elected, and is entitled to his seat,” and in their report stated the case:—
“The only question involved in the decision of Mr. Stockton’s right to a seat is, whether an election by a plurality of votes of the members of the Legislature of New Jersey, in joint meeting assembled, in pursuance of a rule adopted by the joint meeting itself, is valid. The protestants insist that it is not; and they deny Mr. Stockton’s right to a seat, because, as they say, he was not appointed by a majority of the votes of the joint meeting of the Legislature.”
The debate on this question showed earnestness and feeling. Mr. Fessenden, of Maine, used strong language: “I was exceedingly surprised—more so, I will say, than I ever was before, at a judicial decision, in my life—at the opinion to
