Source: The text is taken from a copy of the speech in the Library of Congress, “Speech Of Hon. T. Stevens, of Pennsylvania, Delivered in the House Of Representatives, March
Source: Congressional Globe, 39th Cong., 2nd sess., Jan. 3, 1867, pp. 251-253. Available at A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774–1875, American Memory,