THE

WORKS

OF

CHARLES SUMNER.

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

LEIBNITZ.

VOL. IV.

BOSTON:

LEE AND SHEPARD.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1871,

BY CHARLES SUMNER,

in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

UNIVERSITY PRESS: WELCH, BIGELOW, & Co.,

CAMBRIDGE.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME IV.

THE ANTISLAVERY ENTERPRISE: ITS NECESSITY, PRACTICABILITY,

AND DIGNITY; WITH GLANCES AT THE SPECIAL DUTIES OF

THE NORTH. Address before the People of New York, at the

Metropolitan Theatre, May 9, 1855.

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1

NEW OUTRAGE FOR THE SAKE OF SLAVERY. Letter to Passmore

Williamson, in Moyamensing Prison, August 11, 1855

52

THE PEN BETTER THAN THE SWORD. Letter to Committee of

Publishers in New York, September 26, 1855

58

REPUBLICAN PARTY IN NEW YORK. Letter to a New York Com-

mittee, October 7, 1855

60

REPUBLICAN PARTY OFFSPRING OF AROUSED CONSCIENCE OF THE

COUNTRY. Letter to a Boston Committee, October 8, 1855 . 61

POLITICAL PARTIES AND OUR FOREIGN-BORN POPULATION. Speech

at a Republican Rally in Faneuil Hall, November 2, 1855

ORIGINATION OF APPROPRIATION BILLS. Speech in the Senate, on

the Usurpation of the Senate in the Origination of Appropriation

Bills, February 7, 1856

62

83

RELIEF OF VESSELS IN DISTRESS ON THE COAST. Letter to the

Director of the Exchange News-Room, Boston, February 18, 1856

93

THE EXAMPLE OF WASHINGTON AGAINST SLAVERY NOT TO BE

FORGOTTEN NOW. Letter to a Committee of the Boston Mercan-

tile Library Association, February 19, 1856

95

CONSTANT EXERTION AND UNION AMONG GOOD MEN. Letter to a

Massachusetts Committee, February 25, 1856

97

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ABROGATION OF TREATIES. Speeches in the Senate, March 6 and

May 8, 1856

98

REPLY TO ASSAULTS ON EMIGRATION IN KANSAS. Speech in the

Senate, on the Report of the Committee on Territories, March

12, 1856

121

UNION TO SAVe Kansas, anD UNION TO SAVE OURSELVES. Letter

to a New York Committee, April 28, 1856

123

THE CRIME AGAINST KANSAS: THE APOLOGIES FOR THE CRIME;

THE TRUE REMEDY. Speech in the Senate, May 19 and 20,

1856. With Appendix

125

"WHATEVER MASSACHUSETTS CAN GIVE, LET IT ALL GO TO SUF-

fering Kansas." Telegraphic Despatch to Boston, June 6, 1856

REFUSAL TO RECEIVE TESTIMONIAL IN APPROBATION Of Kansas

SPEECH. Letter to a Committee in Boston, June 13, 1856

APPEAL FOR THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES. Letter to the Repub-

lican Committee at Boston, June 21, 1856

343

344

348

Longing for RESTORATION TO ACTIVE DUTIES, WITH APPEAL TO

THE YOUNG MEN OF MASSACHUSETTS. Letter to the Committee

of a Young Men's Convention at Fitchburg, August 5, 1856 .

APPEAL TO THE REPUBLICANS OF RHODE ISLAND. Letter to a Com-

mittee, September 4, 1856

352

355

CONTRIBUTION FOR KANSAS. Letter to Messrs. Greeley and McEl-

rath, of the New York Tribune, September 23, 1856 .

356

REGRET FOR CONTINUED DISABILITY. Letter to Hon. Lewis D.

Campbell, of Ohio, September 24, 1856

357

EFFECT OF A VOTE FOR BUCHANAN: APPEAL TO THE REPUBLI

CANS OF ILLINOIS. Letter to a Committee of Republicans at

Joliet, October 2, 1856

359

APPEAL FOR THE REPUBLICAN CAUSE. Letter to a Committee of

Hudson River Counties, Poughkeepsie, New York, October 3,

1856.

361

RELIEF FOR KANSAS. Letter to a Committee of the Kansas Aid

Society at Boston, October 3, 1856

364

DUTY TO VOTE FOR KANSAS AND FOR BURLINGAME. Letter to a

Meeting at Faneuil Hall, October 29, 1856

366