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THE UNCONSTITUTIONALITY OF SLAVERY SHOWN FROM ITS BARBARISM. Letter to a Political Antislavery Convention at Worcester, Massachusetts, September 9, 1860 1
THE FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT MUST BE A DEAD LETTER. Letter to a Public Meeting at Syracuse, New York, September 9, 1860 3
EXAMPLE OF MASSACHUSETTS AGAINST SLAVERY. Speech at a Mass Meeting of Republicans, in the Open Air, at Myrick's Station, Massachusetts, September 18, 1860 5
CONTRIBUTIONS OF SCHOOLS FOR STATUE OF HORACE MANN. Letter to the Agent for receiving Contributions, September 19, 1860 20
REMINISCENCE OF THE LATE THEODORE PARKER. Remarks at the Annual Opening of the Fraternity Lectures of Boston, October 1, 1860 22
THREAT OF DISUNION BY THE SLAVE STATES, AND ITS ABSURDITY. Speech at a Mass Meeting of Republicans, in the Open Air, at Framingham, Massachusetts, October 11, 1860 25
NO POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY IN TERRITORIES CAN ESTABLISH SLAVERY. Speech in the Mechanics' Hall, Worcester, November 1, 1860 41
EVENING BEFORE THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. Speech at Faneuil Hall, Boston, November 5, 1860 70
EVENING AFTER THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. Speech to the Wide-Awakes of Concord, Massachusetts, November 7, 1860 76
JOY AND SORROW IN THE RECENT ELECTION. Letter to the Wide-Awakes of Boston, at their Festival, after Election, November 9, 1860 80
THE VICTORY AND PRESENT DUTIES. Speech to the Wide-Awakes, at Providence, Rhode Island, November 16, 1860 82
MODERATION IN VICTORY; STANDING BY OUR PRINCIPLES. Speech to the Wide-Awakes of Lowell, November 21, 1860 86
MEMORIAL STONES OF THE WASHINGTONS IN ENGLAND. Letter to Jared Sparks, Historian of Washington, November 22, 1860. From the Boston Daily Advertiser 89
LAFAYETTE, THE FAITHFUL ONE. Address at the Cooper Institute, New York, November 30, 1860 101
DISUNION AND A SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY: THE OBJECT. Remarks in the Senate, December 10, 1860 165
ATTEMPT AT COMPROMISE: THE CRITTENDEN PROPOSITIONS. Incidents and Notes, December 18, 1860, to March 4, 1861 169
NO SURRENDER OF THE NORTHERN FORTS. Speech in the Senate, on a Massachusetts Petition in Favor of the Crittenden Propositions, February 12, 1861 200
DUTY AND STRENGTH OF THE COMING ADMINISTRATION. From Notes of Undelivered Speech on the Various Propositions of Compromise, February, 1861 213
FOREIGN RELATIONS: ARBITRATION. Report from Committee on Foreign Relations, advising the President to submit the San Juan Boundary Question to Arbitration, in the Senate, March 19, 1861 216
BEGINNING OF THE CONFLICT. Speech before the Third Massachusetts Rifles, in the Armory at New York, April 21, 1861 224
PASSPORTS FOR COLORED CITIZENS. Note to the Secretary of State, June 27, 1861 229
OBJECT OF THE WAR. Proceedings in the Senate, on the Crittenden Resolution declaring the Object of the War, July 24 and 25, 1861 231
SYMPATHIES OF THE CIVILIZED WORLD NOT TO BE REPELLED. Speech in the Senate, against Increase of Ten Per Cent on all Foreign Duties, July 29, 1861 234
EMANCIPATION OUR BEST WEAPON. Speech before the Republican State Convention at Worcester, Massachusetts, October 1, 1861. With Appendix 241
THE REBELLION: ITS ORIGIN AND MAINSPRING. Oration, under the Auspices of the Young Men's Republican Union of New York, at Cooper Institute, November 27, 1861. With Appendix 305
WELCOME TO FUGITIVE SLAVES. Remarks in the Senate, on a Military Order in Missouri, December 4, 1861 359
SLAVERY AND THE BLACK CODE IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Remarks in the Senate, on a Resolution for the Discharge of Fugitive Slaves from the Washington Jail, December 4, 1861 361
THE LATE SENATOR BINGHAM, WITH PROTEST AGAINST SLAVERY. Speech in the Senate, on the Death of Hon. Kinsley S. Bingham, late Senator of Michigan, December 10, 1861 364
THE LATE SENATOR BAKER, WITH CALL FOR EMANCIPATION. Speech in the Senate, on the Death of Hon. Edward D. Baker, late Senator of Oregon, December 11, 1861. With Appendix 370
THE UNCONSTITUTIONALITY OF SLAVERY SHOWN FROM ITS BARBARISM.
LETTER TO A POLITICAL ANTISLAVERY CONVENTION AT WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, SEPTEMBER 9, 1860.
BOSTON, September 9, 1860.
But I do not agree that the National Government has power under the Constitution to touch Slavery in the States, any more than it has power to touch the twin Barbarism of Polygamy in the States, while fully endowed to arrest and suppress both in all the Territories. Therefore I do not join in your special efforts.
But I rejoice in every honest endeavor to expose the Barbarism which degrades our Republic; and here my gratitude is so strong that criticism is disarmed, even where I find that my judgment hesitates.
Accept my thanks for the invitation with which you have honored me, and my best wishes for all Constitutional efforts against Slavery; and believe me, my dear Sir,
Very faithfully yours,
CHARLES SUMNER.
A. P. BROOKS, Esq.
THE FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT MUST BE A DEAD LETTER.
LETTER TO A PUBLIC MEETING AT SYRACUSE, NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 9, 1860.
This meeting was one of a series, known as "Jerry Rescue Celebration," being on the anniversary of the rescue of the fugitive slave Jerry from the hands of slave-hunters.
BOSTON, September 9, 1860.
At your proposed meeting, which it will not be in my power to attend, I trust that just hatred of Slavery in all its pretensions will be subjected to that temperate judgment which knows how to keep a sacred animosity within the limits of Constitution and Law.
Accept my thanks for the invitation with which you have honored me, and believe me, with much personal regard and constant sympathy,
Sincerely yours,
CHARLES SUMNER.
Rev. S. J. MAY.
EXAMPLE OF MASSACHUSETTS AGAINST SLAVERY.
SPEECH AT A MASS MEETING OF REPUBLICANS, IN THE OPEN AIR, AT MYRICK'S STATION, MASSACHUSETTS, SEPTEMBER 18, 1860.
A large Republican meeting was held in the open air, at Myrick's Station, September 18, 1860, in Bristol County, Massachusetts. The New Bedford and Taunton Branch Railroad, and the Old Colony and Fall River Railroad, with their branches, were tasked to the utmost in bringing a crowd estimated at eight thousand. There were large delegations from New Bedford, Fall River, and Taunton.
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