PREFACE. THE friends of the late HENRY WINTER DAVIS have thought it due to his memory, and to the remembrance of the public service. which he fulfilled both in the Congress of the United States and before the people of Maryland, especially in behalf of emancipation, that all such adequate and proper account of it as could be had should be put into some convenient shape, and published, as a contribution to the history of the times, as well as constituting a suitable record of that service. To this end they have collected all the reports and accounts of the speeches and addresses delivered by him, and, upon examination of them, it was resolved to publish all such as were regularly and correctly reported, and which he had gathered or retained, precisely as they were printed and as he left them, without correction and without omission, except in two instances alone, where direct allusion by name was made to persons, which allusions they believe Mr. Davis would have omitted if he had lived to correct these speeches for the press. In this collection have also been included such documents and reports as were wholly written by him, although the course recommended in such papers was not adopted, or the measures or men condemned thereby were approved, by the party he supported or by the people to whom he appealed. For it has not been thought admissible to correct any part of the account, nor to withhold any part of it, unless by reason of an insufficient and inadequate report it was plainly no true record of what was said. It is to be regretted, of course, that these speeches and docu ments should not have received final revision by the author's hand; but, in the absence of that, the only proper emendation, it has been thought improper to substitute the corrections of any other. They have gladly used the permission of the Hon. Mr. CRESSWELL to include here, as a sketch of the life and services of Mr. Davis, the admirable Oration delivered by him in the hall of the House of Representatives on the occasion of the commemorative services held there by the senators and representatives on the 22d of February, 1866. Short notes have been prefixed or annexed to each speech or paper, explanatory of the allusions made in it-recalling contemporary events, or the circumstances under which, and the time at which, it was delivered. The intention has been to confine those notes to that purpose alone; and the statements made have been verified by a recurrence to the daily record of such events printed or made at the time of their occurrence. CONTENTS. THE LIFE AND CHARACTER OF HENRY WINTER DAVIS. An Oration delivered in the Hall of the House of Representatives by Hon. John A. J. Cresswell, on the 22d of February, 1866........ Page 9 SPEECHES AND ADDRESSES. A PLEA FOR THE COUNTRY AGAINST THE SECTIONS. A Speech delivered in the House of Representatives, August 7th, 1856........... 39 THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE (1856).—THE TEACHINGS OF THE LATE ELECTION. A Speech delivered in the House of Representatives, January 6th, 1857.......................... AGAINST THE LECOMPTON FRAUDS. A Speech delivered in the House of Representatives, March 30th, 1858........ 63 83 REMARKS AT THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE EASTERN FEMALE HIGH SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE. An Address delivered in Baltimore, Md., November 16, 1858..... THE REOPENING OF THE SLAVE - TRADE. An Article written for a Daily Journal in August, 1859......... 104 115 THE QUESTION IN THE TERRITORIES. UNION OF ALL OPPOSED TO THE DE MOCRACY. An Article addressed to the Editor of the N. Y. Tribune in November, 1859... 119 ON THE RESOLUTIONS OF CENSURE BY THE MARYLAND LEGISLATURE ON ACCOUNT OF MR. DAVIS'S VOTE FOR MR. SPEAKER PENNINGTON. A Speech delivered in the House of Representatives, February 21st, 1860................... 125 SPEECH BEFORE THE ELECTORS OF THE FOURTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT OF MARYLAND. A Speech addressed to the Electors of the Fourth Congressional District of Maryland during the Presidential Campaign of 1860............. 146 ADDRESS TO THE VOTERS OF THE FOURTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT. A Letter addressed to the Constituents of Mr. Davis, January 2d, 1861... Page 187 THE REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF THIRTY-THREE, A Speech delivered in the House of Representatives, February 7th, 1861....................... 199 ADDRESS TO THE CITIZENS OF BALTIMORE ON THE STATE OF THE NATION IN THE AUTUMN OF '61. A Speech delivered in Baltimore, Md., October 16th, 1861...... 222 CONSTITUTIONAL POWERS SUFFICIENT FOR REPRESSION OF REBELLION. A Speech delivered in Brooklyn, N. Y., November, 1861..... 258 CONFISCATION OF THE PROPERTY OF THOSE ENGAGED IN REBELLION. Two Letters addressed to the Hon. Justin S. Morrill, a Representative in Congress from Vermont, June 6th, 1862... 292 THE DEMOCRATIC HUE AND CRY A SHAM.-CONFISCATION AND EMANCIPATION. A Speech delivered in Concert Hall, Newark, N. J., October 30th, 1862.......................... 303 NO PEACE BEFORE VICTORY. A Speech delivered in Concert Hall, Philadelphia, September 24th, 1863.................... 307 REMARKS AT THE RECEPTION OF RUSSIAN NAVAL OFFICERS. A Response to a Toast, delivered in the Astor House, New York, October 12th, 1863...... 338 NO PEACE TILL AFTER REBEL SUBMISSION. An Address delivered in the Cooper Institute, New York, October 9th, 1863.... 341 CONFISCATION OF REBEL PROPERTY. A Speech delivered in the House of Representatives, January 14th, 1864....................... 343 DRAFT AND COMMUTATION.-COLORED TROOPS. Extracts from Speeches delivered in the House of Representatives, February 10th and 11th, 1864........ FREEDMEN'S BUREAU.-DISPOSITION TO BE MADE OF FREE NEGROES. A Speech delivered in the House of Representatives, January 25th, 1864 .......... REPUBLICAN GOVERNMENT IN THE REBELLIOUS STATES. A Speech delivered in the House of Representatives, March 22d, 1864 ON EMANCIPATION IN MARYLAND. 351 353 ...... 368 A Speech delivered in the Maryland Institute, Baltimore, April 1st, 1864........ 384 THE EMPIRE OF MEXICO. A Speech delivered in the House of Representatives, April 4th, 1864....... Page 395 EXPULSION OF MR. LONG, OF OHIO. A Speech delivered in the House of Representatives, April 11th, 1864................................ 397 THE ENROLLMENT BILL. A Speech delivered in the House of Representatives, July 1st, 1864... .... 410 THE PRESIDENT'S SUPPRESSION OF THE BILL FOR RECONSTRUCTION IN THE REBELLIOUS STATES. An Address to the People, known as the "Wade-Davis Manifesto," published August 8th, 1864......... 415 VICTORY THE CONDITION OF SUCCESS. A Speech delivered in National Hall, Philadelphia, October 25th, 1864 .......................... 427 JOINT RESOLUTION ON MEXICAN AFFAIRS. A Report and Resolution addressed to the House of Representatives, June, 1864.. 456 FOREIGN POLICY OF THE UNITED STATES IN REGARD TO MEXICAN AFFAIRS. A Speech delivered in the House of Representatives, 1864 472 ADMINISTRATION OF THE NAVY DEPARTMENT.-MONITORS AND ARMORED SHIPS. Speeches delivered in the House of Representatives, February 3d and 6th, 1865.. 480 RECONSTRUCTION OF THE REBEL STATES. A Speech delivered in the House of Representatives, February 21st, 1865 ................. 529 SPEECH ON PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE MISCELLANEOUS APPROPRIATION LETTER ON RECONSTRUCTION.-UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE. 538 A Letter written to a Friend in Washington, dated Baltimore, May 27, 1865... 556 LESSONS OF THE WAR.-SECURITY FOR THE FUTURE, AND SELF-GOVERNMENT BY LAW, WITH LIBERTY GUARDED BY POWER. An Oration delivered in the Hall of the Sanitary Fair at Chicago, Ill., July 4th, 1865........... THE NECESSITY OF UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE IN RECONSTRUCTION. 564 A Letter addressed to the Editor of the (New York) Nation, October, 1865...... 585 |