HARVARD
UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY
MAR 16 1964

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

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175
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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.

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

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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

Letter to a

THE FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT MUST BE A DEAD LETTER.

Public Meeting at Syracuse, New York, September 9, 1860.

273

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

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 344

JOY AND SORROW IN THE RECENT ELECTION. Letter to the Wide-

Awakes of Boston, at their Festival, after Election, November 9,

1860

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.

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338

348

350

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

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369

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.

No SURRENDer of the NORTHERN FORTS. Speech in the Senate,

on a Massachusetts Petition in Favor of the Crittenden Proposi-

tions, February 12, 1861.

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DUTY AND STRENGTH OF THE COMING ADMINISTRATION.

Notes of undelivered Speech on the various Propositions of Com-

promise, February, 1861.

433

437

454

468

481

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

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497

499

502