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    Statesman Edition                        VOL. V

                     Charles Sumner

                   HIS COMPLETE WORKS

                    With Introduction
                           BY
                HON. GEORGE FRISBIE HOAR

                     [Illustration]

                         BOSTON
                    LEE AND SHEPARD
                          MCM

                    COPYRIGHT, 1900,
                          BY
                    LEE AND SHEPARD.

                   Statesman Edition.
             LIMITED TO ONE THOUSAND COPIES.
                   OF WHICH THIS IS
                        No. 565

                    Norwood Press:
                NORWOOD, MASS., U.S.A.




CONTENTS OF VOLUME V.


                                                                  PAGE

    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                                             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 Committee,
    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