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Charles Sumner; his complete works; Volume 2 (of 20)

Charles Sumner; his complete works; Volume 2 (of 20)

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CHARLES SUMNER


CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS

Copyright, 1900,

BY

LEE AND SHEPARD.

Statesman Edition.

Limited to One Thousand Copies.

Of which this is

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

CONTENTS OF VOLUME II.

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White Slavery in the Barbary States. A Lecture before the Boston Mercantile Library Association, February 17, 1847 1
Rival Systems of Prison Discipline. Speech before the Boston Prison Discipline Society, at Tremont Temple, June 18, 1847 104
The Late Joseph Lewis Stackpole, Esq. Article in the Boston Daily Advertiser, July 23, 1847 151
Fame and Glory. Oration before the Literary Societies of Amherst College, at their Anniversary, August 11, 1847 153
Necessity of Political Action against the Slave Power and the Extension of Slavery. Speech in the Whig State Convention of Massachusetts, at Springfield, September 29, 1847 207
The Late Henry Wheaton. Article in the Boston Daily Advertiser, March 16, 1848 215
Union among Men of All Parties against the Slave Power and the Extension of Slavery. Speech before a Mass Convention at Worcester, June 28, 1848 226
The Law of Human Progress. Oration before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Union College, Schenectady, July 25, 1848 241
The Party of Freedom. Speech on taking the Chair as Presiding Officer of a Public Meeting to ratify the Nominations of the Buffalo Convention, at Faneuil Hall, August 22, 1848 291
Parties, and Importance of a Free-Soil Organization. Letter addressed to a Committee of the Free-Soil Party in Boston, October 20, 1848 299
Appeal for the Free-Soil Party. Address of the State Committee to the People of Massachusetts, November 9, 1843 316
A Last Rally for Freedom. Letter to the Chairman of the Free-Soil Meeting at Faneuil Hall, November 9, 1848 320
War System of the Commonwealth of Nations. Address before the American Peace Society, at its Anniversary Meeting in the Park Street Church, Boston, May 28, 1849 323

WHITE SLAVERY IN THE BARBARY STATES.

A Lecture before the Boston Mercantile Library Association, February 17, 1847.

Mutato nomine, de te

Fabula narratur.—Hor. Sat. I. i. 69, 70.

And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shall escape the judgment of God?—Rom. ii. 3.

There are individuals in the United States who hold more of their fellow-creatures in slavery than either of the Barbary Powers.—Humphreys, Valedictory Discourse before the Cincinnati of Connecticut, p. 34.

This was another attempt to expose Slavery before a promiscuous audience at a time when the subject was too delicate to be treated directly. Mr. Sumner commenced in the course at Boston, and afterwards gave the substance of his Lecture before many of the Lyceums of Massachusetts. Professedly historical in character, and carefully avoiding any discussion of slavery in our country, it escaped "censure," although jealous defenders of compromise were disturbed. Others were pleased to find their sentiments against slavery represented in the lecture-room.

It was easy to see, that, under the guise of condemning the slavery of whites, he condemned the slavery of

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