Copyright, 1882,

BY LUCRETIA R. GARFIELD.

All rights reserved.

UNIVERSITY PRESS:

JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME II.

PUBLIC EXPENDITURES: THEIR INCREASE AND DIMINUTION

Speech delivered in the House of Representatives, January 23, 1872.

NATIONAL AID TO EDUCATION

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Speech delivered in the House of Representatives, February 6, 1872.

DR. SAMUEL F. B. MORSE

26

Remarks made at the Morse Memorial Meeting, held in the Hall of the

House of Representatives, April 16, 1872.

THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN OF 1872

30

Speech delivered at Warren, Ohio, July 31, 1872.

THE FUTURE of the REPUBLIC: ITS DANGERS AND ITS HOPES

Address delivered before the Literary Societies of Western Reserve

College, Hudson, Ohio, July 2, 1873.

THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY: SETTLEMENT OF THE WESTERN

RESERVE

Address delivered before the Historical Society of Geauga County, at

Burton, Ohio, September 16, 1873.

CHIEF JUSTICE CHASE AND PROFESSOR AGASSIZ.

Remarks made in the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution,

December 19, 1873.

REVENUES AND EXPENDITURES

96

Speech delivered in the House of Representatives, March 5, 1874.

APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1875

Speech delivered in the House of Representatives, June 23, 1874.

EFFECTS OF THE REBELLION ON SOUTHERN LIFE INSURANCE CON-

TRACTS

129

140

Argument before the Supreme Court of the United States in the Case of

W. E. Tate et al. v. The New York Life Insurance Co. et al., made

March 17, 1874.

EFFECTS OF THE REBELLION ON SOUTHERN LIFE INSURANCE CON-

TRACTS

Argument before the Supreme Court of the United States in the Cases

of The New York Life Insurance Co. v. Statham et al. and Charlotte

Seyms, made April 26, 1876.

CURRENCY AND THE PUBLIC FAITH

Speech delivered in the House of Representatives, April 9, 1874.

Speech delivered in the House of Representatives, January 12, 1876.

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246

Paper contributed to the Atlantic Monthly, February, 1876.

Remarks made in the House of Representatives, February 7, 1876.

Remarks made in the House of Representatives, February 24, 1876.

ALMEDA A. BOOTH: HER LIFE AND CHARACTER

290

Address delivered at Hiram College, Hiram, Ohio, June 22, 1876.

Remarks made in the House of Representatives, April 6, 1876.

THE GENEVA AWARD

324

Remarks made in the House of Representatives, July 5, 1876.

PHASES OF THE SILVER QUESTION.

Remarks made in the House of Representatives on various Occasions.

Speech delivered in the House of Representatives, August 4, 1876.

JOHN WINTHROP AND SAMUEL ADAMS

Remarks made in the House of Representatives, December 19, 1876.

CONGRESS AND PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS

Speech delivered in the House of Representatives, January 16, 1877.

COUNTING THE ELECTORAL VOTE.

Speech delivered in the House of Representatives, January 25, 1877.

THE FLORIDA RETURNS IN THE ELECTION OF 1876

Argument made in the Electoral Commission, February 9, 1877.

449

THE LOUISIANA RETURNS IN THE ELECTION OF 1876.

Argument made in the Electoral Commission, February 16, 1877-

A CENTURY OF CONGRESS

463

Paper contributed to the Atlantic Monthly, July, 1877.

PROPOSED REPEAL OF THE RESUMPTION LAW

490

Speech delivered in the House of Representatives, November 16, 1877..

THE NEW SCHEME OF AMERICAN FINANCE

510

Speech delivered in the House of Representatives, March 6, 1878.

OLIVER P. MORTON

529

Remarks made in the House of Representatives, January 18, 1878.

Address delivered in the Hall of the House of Representatives, February

12, 1878.

Speech delivered in the House of Representatives, May 21, 1878.

THE WOOD TARIFF BILL

551

Speech delivered in the House of Representatives, June 4, 1878.

THE HALIFAX AWARD.

571

Remarks made in the House of Representatives, June 19, 1878.

Address delivered before the Ohio Editorial Association, at Cleveland,

Ohio, July 11, 1878.

HONEST MONEY

586

Speech delivered in Faneuil Hall, Boston, September 10, 1878.

Remarks made at the Henry Memorial Meeting held in the Hall of the

House of Representatives, January 16, 1879.

GUSTAVE SCHLEICHER

632

Remarks made in the House of Representatives, February 17, 1879.

THE SUGAR TARIFF

637

Speech delivered in the House of Representatives, February 26, 1879.

Speeches made in the House of Representatives, March 29 and April 4,

1879.