3941124 HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY GIFT OF MARY E. HAVEN 15. 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. UNIVERSITY PRESS: WELCH, BIGELOW, & Co., CAMBRIDGE. Believe me still, as I have ever been, The steadfast lover of my fellow-men; My weakness, love of holy liberty; 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 WRONG OF SLAVERY. Speech at a Public Meeting in Faneuil Hall, Boston, against the Admission of Texas as a Slave State, THE EMPLOYMENT OF TIME. Lecture before the Boston Lyceum, delivered in the Federal Street Theatre, February 18, 1846. THE SCHOLAR, THE JURIST, THE ARTIST, THE PHILANTHROPIST. An Oration before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Harvard Uni- 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- INVALIDITY OF ENLISTMENTS IN THE MASSACHUSETTS REGIMENT 352 874 RIVAL SYSTEMS OF PRISON DISCIPLINE. Speech before the Boston Prison Discipline Society, at the Tremont Temple, June 18, 1847. 486 533 |