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HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY
GIFT OF
MARY E. HAVEN JULY 2, 1914.
US 5249.124-
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1872,
BY CHARLES SUMNER,
in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
UNIVERSITY PRESS: WELCH, BIGELOW, & Co.,
CAMBRIDGE.
CONTENTS OF VOLUME V.
THE BARBARISM OF SLAVERY. Speech in the Senate, on Bill for
Admission of Kansas as a Free State, June 4, 1860.
A VICTORY OF PRINCIPLE IN THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. Let-
ter to a Public Meeting at Middleborough, Massachusetts, June
11, 1860
REFUSAL TO COLORED PERSONS OF RIGHT OF PETITION. Notes of
undelivered Speech in the Senate, on Resolution refusing to receive
Petition from Citizens of Massachusetts of African Descent, June
15, 1860
THE LATE HONORABLE JOHN SCHWARTZ, OF PENNSYLVANIA.
Speech in the Senate, on Resolutions in Tribute to him, June 21,
1860.
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1
175
176
188
UNHESITATING ASSERTION Of our PrincipLES. Letter to the Re-
publicans of New York City, June 27, 1860.
190
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY ITS ORIGIN, NECESSITY, AND PERMA-
NENCE. Speech before the Young Men's Republican Union of
New York, at Cooper Institute, July 11, 1860
191
OUR CANDIDATES WILL BE ELECTED. Letter to the Lincoln and
Hamlin Club of Owego, New York, July 30, 1860
EMANCIPATION IN THE BRITISH WEST INDIES A BLESSING, AND
NOT A FAILURE. Letter to a Public Meeting at Framingham,
Massachusetts, July 30, 1860.
230
231
SLAVERY A BARBAROUS DISEASE TO BE STAYED. Letter to a Re-
publican Meeting at the Dedication of the Republican Wigwam
in New York, August 6, 1860.
234
TRIBUTE TO A COLLEGE CLASSMATE. Remarks on the Late John
W. Browne, August 20, 1860
236
PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES AND THE ISSUES. Speech at the State
Convention of the Republican Party at Worcester, August 29,
THE UNCONSTITUTIONALITY OF SLAVERY SHOWN FROM ITS BAR-
BARISM. Letter to a Political Antislavery Convention at Wor-
cester, Massachusetts, September 9, 1860
269
.
271
THE FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT MUST BE A DEAD LETTER. Letter to a
Public Meeting at Syracuse, New York, September 9, 1860.
EXAMPLE OF MASSACHUSETTS AGAINST SLAVERY. Speech at a
Mass Meeting of Republicans, in the Open Air, at Myrick's
Station, Massachusetts, September 18, 1860
CONTRIBUTIONS OF SCHOOLS FOR STATUE OF HORACE MANN.
Letter to the Agent for receiving Contributions, September
19, 1860.
273
REMINISCENCE OF THE LATE THEODORE PARKER. Remarks at the
Annual Opening of the Fraternity Lectures of Boston, October 1,
1860
288
290
THREAT OF DISUNION BY THE SLAVE STATES, AND ITS AB-
SURDITY. Speech at a Mass Meeting of Republicans, in the
Open Air, at Framingham, Massachusetts, October 11, 1860 293
NO POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY IN TERRITORIES CAN ESTABLISH
SLAVERY. Speech in the Mechanics' Hall, Worcester, November
1, 1860
EVENING BEFORE the PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. Speech at Faneuil
Hall, Boston, November 5, 1860
EVENING AFTER THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. Speech to the
Wide-Awakes of Concord, Massachusetts, November 7, 1860
JOY AND SORROW IN THE RECENT ELECTION. Letter to the Wide-
Awakes of Boston, at their Festival, after Election, November 9,
THE VICTORY AND PRESENT DUTIES. Speech to the Wide-Awakes,
at Providence, Rhode Island, November 16, 1860
MODERATION IN VICTORY; STANDING BY OUR PRINCIPLES. Speech
to the Wide-Awakes of Lowell, November 21, 1860
MEMORIAL STONES OF THE WASHINGTONS IN ENGLAND.
Jared Sparks, Historian of Washington, Nov. 22, 1860.
Boston Daily Advertiser.
338
344
348
350
354
Letter to
From the
357
LAFAYETTE, THE FAITHFUL ONE. Address at the Cooper Institute,
New York, November 30, 1860
DISUNION AND A SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY: THE OBJECT. Re-
marks in the Senate, December 10, 1860
ATTEMPT AT COMPROMISE: THE CRITTENDEN PROPOSITIONS. In-
cidents and Notes, December 18, 1860, to March 4, 1861 .
ANXIETIES AND PROSPECTS DURING THE WINTER. Letters to John
A. Andrew, Governor of Massachusetts, January 17 to February
20, 1861.
369
433
437
454
NO SURRENDER OF THE NORTHERN FORTS. Speech in the Senate,
on a Massachusetts Petition in Favor of the Crittenden Proposi-
tions, February 12, 1861.
DUTY AND STRENGTH OF THE COMING ADMINISTRATION.
From
Notes of undelivered Speech on the various Propositions of Com-
promise, February, 1861.
468
481
492
FOREIGN RELATIONS: ARBITRATION. Report from Committee on
Foreign Relations, advising the President to submit the San Juan
Boundary Question to Arbitration, in the Senate, March 19, 1861. 484
BEGINNING OF THE CONFLICT. Speech before the Third Massa-
chusetts Rifles, in the Armory at New York, April 21, 1861
PASSPORTS FOR COLORED CITIZENS. Note to the Secretary of
State, June 27, 1861
OBJECT OF THE WAR. Proceedings in the Senate, on the Crit-
tenden Resolution declaring the Object of the War, July 24
and 25, 1861
SYMPATHIES OF THE CIVILIZED WORLD NOT TO BE REPELLED.
Speech in the Senate, against Increase of Ten per cent on all
Foreign Duties, July 29, 1861