THE

WORKS

OF

CHARLES SUMNER.

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VOL. IV.

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LEE AND SHEPARD.

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UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY

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

BY CHARLES SUMNER,

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

CONTENTS OF VOLUME IV.

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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.

NEW OUTRAGe for the SAKE OF SLAVERY. Letter to Passmore

Williamson, in Moyamensing Prison, August 11, 1855 . :

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52

THE PEN BETTER THAN THE SWORD. Letter to Committee of

Publishers in New York, September 26, 1855

58

REPUBLICAN PARTY IN NEW YORK. Lotter to a New York Com-
mittee, October 7, 1855

60

REPUBLICAN PARTY OFFSrring of ArouSED CONSCIENCE of the

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

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

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

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

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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

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

May 8, 1856

REPLY TO ASSAULTS ON EMIGRation in KansAS. Speech in the

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

12, 1856

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UNION TO SAVe Kansas, and Union to sAVE OURSELVES. Lotter

to a New York Committee, April 28, 1856

THE CRIME AGAINST KANSAS: THE APOLOGIES for the Crime;

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

1866. With Appendix

"WHATEVER MASSACHUSETTS CAN GIVE, Let it all go to Suf-

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

REFUSAL TO RECEIVE TESTIMONIAL IN APPROBATIOn of KansasS

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

APPEAL FOR THe Republican CANDIDATES. Lettor to the Repub-
lican Committeo at Boston, June 21, 1856

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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. . 352

APPEAL TO The RepublicaNS OF RHODE ISLAND. Letter to a Com-

mittee, September 4, 1856

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

ruth, of the Now York Tribuno, September 23, 1850.

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

Campbell, of Ohio, September 24, 1856

EFFECT OF A VOTE FOR BUCHANAN: APPEAL TO THE REPUBLI-

cans of Illinois. Letter to a Committee of Republicans at

Joliet, October 2, 1866

Appeal for the RepublicAN CAUSE. Letter to a Committee of

Hudson River Counties, Poughkeepsie, New York, October 8,

.1856.

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

Society at Boston, October 8, 1856

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

Meeting at Faneuil Hall, October 29, 1856

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