Table of Contents:
  • Speech of Hon. William D. Kelley, of Pennsylvania in support of the proposed amendment to the bill "To guarantee to certain states, whose governments have been usurped or overthrown, a republican form of government'
  • The immediate issue: a speech of Wendell Phillips at the annual meeting of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society at Boston
  • What the black man wants: speech of Frederick Douglass at the annual meeting of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society at Boston
  • Suffrage for the blacks sound political economy, shown in a letter to the "Boston Daily advertiser" / Elizur Wright
  • Reconstruction: a letter from William Heighton to George L. Stearns.