Eight years in Congress, from 1857-1865.
Subtitle: Memoir and speeches.
By: By Samuel S. Cox.
Publisher: D. Appleton and Company
Published: 1865
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 442
Subjects: United States -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
Table of contents: title: Memoir: A constitutional opposition. Classification of the volume. Kansas and the territorial question. 36th Congress, its members and views.; title: Speeches: Expenses of 1858 and 1864 compared. Tariff in 1864. Future questions of finance. Sedition in the North. Northern nullifiers. Revolutionary abolitionism, reply to Mr. Corwin. Expulsion of Mr. Long, reply to Speaker Colfax. Arguelles case, right of asylum. Territorial expansion, continental policy. Mexican politics, national growth,. Recognition of Hayti and Liberia. Trent affair. Democracy of the sea, maritime rights. Secession, compromise, nationality. Eulogy of Douglas. Reply to Mr. Gurley on General McClellan. Emancipation and its results. Meaning of the elections of 1862. Puritanism in politics. The conscription bill. Negro soldiers. Personal liberty, Vallandigham's case. Magna charta; its sanctity. Confiscation. Miscgenation. Historic lessons, reconstruction. Constitutional amendment abolishing slavery. Admission of cabinet into Congress.