Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870, by

CHARLES

SUMNER,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the District of Massachusetts.

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 I.

THE TRUE GRANDEUR OF NATIONS. An Oration before the Au-

thorities of the City of Boston, July 4, 1845.

TRIBUTE OF FRIENDSHIP: THE LATE JOSEPH STORY. Article from

the Boston Daily Advertiser, September 16, 1845.

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

EQUAL RIGHTS IN THE LECTURE-ROOM. Letter to the Committee

of the New Bedford Lyceum, November 29, 1845.

PRISONS AND PRISON DISCIPLINE. Article from the Christian Ex-

aminer, January, 1846

THE EMPLOYMENT OF TIME. Lecture before the Boston Lyceum,

delivered in the Federal Street Theatre, February 18, 1846

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THE LATE JOHN PICKERING. Article

in the Law Reporter of June, 1846.

THE SCHOLAR, THE JURIST, THE ARTIST, THe Philanthropist.

An Oration before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Harvard Uni-

versity, at their Anniversary, August 27, 1846

ANTISLAVERY Duties of the WhIG PARTY. Speech at the Whig

State Convention of Massachusetts, in Faneuil Hall, Boston, Sep-

tember 23, 1846

WRONGFUL DECLARATION OF WAR AGAINST MEXICO. Letter to

Hon. Robert C. Winthrop, Representative in Congress from Bos-

ton, October 25, 1846

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REFUSAL TO BE A CANDIDATE FOR CONGRESS. Notice in the Bos-
ton Papers, October 31, 1846.

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SLAVERY AND THE MEXICAN WAR. Speech at a Public Meeting

in the Tremont Temple, Boston, November 5, 1846

INVALIDITY OF ENLISTMENTS IN THE MASSACHUSETTS REGIMENT

OF VOLUNTEERS FOR THE MEXICAN WAR. Argument before

the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, January, 1847

WITHDRAWAL OF AMERICAN TROOPS FROM MEXICO. Speech at a

Public Meeting in Faneuil Hall, Boston, February 4, 1847

WHITE SLAVERY IN THE BARBARY STATES. A Lecture before the

Boston Mercantile Library Association, February 17, 1847.

RIVAL SYSTEMS OF PRISON DISCIPLINE. Speech before the Boston

Prison Discipline Society, at the Tremont Temple, June 18, 1847. 486

THE LATE JOSEPH LEWIS STACKPOLE, ESQ. Article in the Boston

Daily Advertiser, July 23, 1847

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