OF THE

SOUVENIR

FROM

THE AFRO-AMERICAN LEAGUE

OF TENNESSEE

ΤΟ

HON. JAMES M. ASHLEY

OF OHIO.

before.

That flag means more to you and to me to-night than ever it did

"It means that never again, on the land or on the sea, can it be a flag of
'stripes' to any of God's children, however poor or however black."-p. 746.

No more its flaming emblems wave

To bar from hope the trembling slave;

No more its radiant glories shine

To blast with woe one child of Thine."

Page 384.

Edited by BENJAMIN W. ARNETT,

One of the Bishops of the A. M. E. Church,

WILBERFORCE, OHIO.

PUBLISHING HOUSE OF THE A. M. E. CHURCH,
631 PINE STREET, PHILADELPHIA.

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Answer at Charloe to Senator Stephen A. Douglas's Squatter Sov-

ereignty Demagogism

Banner Presentation, German Township, Fulton Co.-----.

Address at the Wigwam in Toledo-----

First Speech in Congress---.

44

Second Speech in Congress----

116

Letter protesting against the army being used to capture and return

fugitive slaves----

165

Address at College Hall, Toledo----

171

Speech for the Abolition of Slavery in the District of Columbia----

213

Speech for the Organization of the Territory of Arizona---

226

Letter of Congratulation on Mr. Lincoln's Proclamation of Emancipa-

tion, January 1, 1863--

240

Speech at White's Hall, Toledo---

248

Speech at Wood County Union Convention-

257

Speech on Reconstruction-----

264

Speech when renominated for Congress-.

298

Letter to the Officers and Soldiers of the Union Army----

305

Address at the Oliver House Banquet----

309

Address at Napoleon, Ohio--‒‒‒‒

315

History of the Bill for the Abolition of Slavery and the Thirteenth

Amendment-.

Congressional Speech on Impartial Suffrage and Reconstruction------ 392

Congressional Speech on Reconstruction---.

415

Remarks on Impeachment of the President-----

436

Congressional Speech on Amendment of the National Constitution--- 459

Address on Renomination in 1868-----.

Oration on the Death of Hon. Owen Lovejoy, of Illinois‒‒‒‒‒‒

638

Oration on the Death of Hon. Thaddeus Stevens, of Pennsylvania----- 640

Letter and Rules on Co-operation and Profit-sharing----

661

Address to the International Train Dispatchers' Convention---

Address in the Congressional Campaign of 1890--

Memorial Address at Wauseon-

667

675

681

Address to Pioneers----

685

Address before the Ohio Society of New York on the Abolition of

Slavery in the District of Columbia and the Passage of the Thir-

teenth Amendment-.

692

714

Address before Grand Army Posts in Toledo-----

Address on Lincoln before the Ohio Republican League at Toledo---- 747

Address before the Ohio Society of New York in favor of Nominat-

ing and Electing the President and U. S. Senators by direct vote-- 767