THE

WORKS

OF

CHARLES SUMNER.

Veniet fortasse aliud tempus, dignius nostro, quo, debellatis odiis,
veritas triumphabit. Hoc mecum opta, lector, et vale.

LEIBNITZ.

VOL. V.

BOSTON:

LEE AND SHEPARD.

B

H

UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY

! CONTENTS OF VOLUME V.

PAGE

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

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176

THE LATE HONORABLE JOHN SCHWARTZ, OF PENNSYLVANIA.

Speech in the Senate, on Resolutions in Tribute to him, June 21,

1860.

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

230

EMANCIPATION IN THE BRITISH WEST INDIES A BLESSING, AND

NOT A FAILURE. Letter to a Public Meeting at Framingham,

Massachusetts, July 30, 1860

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