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Charles Sumner; his complete works, volume 1 (of 20)

Charles Sumner; his complete works, volume 1 (of 20)

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CHARLES SUMNER


CHARLES SUMNER

Copyright, 1899,

BY

LEE AND SHEPARD.

Statesman Edition.

Limited to One Thousand Copies.

Of which this is

No. 565

Norwood Press:
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

Believe me still, as I have ever been,
The steadfast lover of my fellow-men;
My weakness, love of holy liberty;
My crime, the wish that all mankind were free:
Free, not by blood; redeemed, but not by crime;
Each fetter broken, but in God's good time.

Whittier.

NOTE.

In this collection the arrangement is strictly chronological. Every article will be found according to its date, without reference to the subject or occasion, thus showing the succession of efforts as they occurred.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME 1.

CHAPTER PAGE
INTRODUCTION. By Hon. George Frisbie Hoar vii
The True Grandeur of Nations. An Oration before the Authorities of the City of Boston, July 4, 1845 5
Tribute of Friendship: The late Joseph Story. Article from the Boston Daily Advertiser, September 16, 1845 133
The Wrong of Slavery. Speech at a Public Meeting in Faneuil Hall, Boston, against the Admission of Texas as a Slave State, November 4, 1845 149
Equal Rights in the Lecture-Room. Letter to the Committee of the New Bedford Lyceum, November 29, 1845 160
Prisons and Prison Discipline. Article from the Christian Examiner, January, 1846 163
The Employment of Time. Lecture before the Boston Lyceum, delivered in the Federal Street Theatre, February 18, 1846 184
Biographical Sketch of the late John Pickering. Article in the Law Reporter of June, 1846 214
The Scholar, the Jurist, the Artist, the Philanthropist. An Oration before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Harvard University, at their Anniversary, August 27, 1846 241
Antislavery Duties of the Whig Party. Speech at the Whig State Convention of Massachusetts, in Faneuil Hall, Boston, September 23, 1846 303
Wrongful Declaration of War against Mexico. Letter to Hon. Robert C. Winthrop, Representative in Congress from Boston, October 25, 1846 317
Refusal to be a Candidate for Congress. Notice in the Boston Papers, October 31, 1846 330
Slavery and the Mexican War. Speech at a Public Meeting in the Tremont Temple, Boston, November 5, 1846 333
Invalidity of Enlistments in the Massachusetts Regiment of Volunteers for the Mexican War. Argument before the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, January, 1847 352
Withdrawal of American Troops from Mexico. Speech at a Public Meeting in Faneuil Hall, Boston, February 4, 1847 374

GEORGE F. HOAR

INTRODUCTION.

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