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    Statesman Edition                        VOL. V

                     Charles Sumner

                   HIS COMPLETE WORKS

                    With Introduction
                           BY
                HON. GEORGE FRISBIE HOAR

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                          BY
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                   Statesman Edition.
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                   OF WHICH THIS IS
                        No. 565

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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 OUR FOREIGN-BORN POPULATION. Speech at
    a Republican Rally in Faneuil Hall, November 2, 1855            62

    ORIGINATION OF APPROPRIATION BILLS. Speech in the Senate,
    on the Usurpation of the Senate in the Origination of
    Appropriation Bills, February 7, 1856                           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 Mercantile 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                                                     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 SUFFERING
    KANSAS.” Telegraphic Despatch to Boston, June 6, 1856          343

    REFUSAL TO RECEIVE TESTIMONIAL IN APPROBATION OF KANSAS SPEECH.
    Letter to a Committee in Boston, June 13, 1856                 344




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.


    The principles of true politics are those of morality enlarged;
    and I neither now do nor ever will admit of any other.--BURKE,
    _Letter to the Bishop of Chester: Correspondence_, Vol. I. p.
    332.

    True politics I look on as a part of moral philosophy, which
    is nothing but the art of conducting men right in society, and
    supporting a community amongst its neighbors.--JOHN LOCKE,
    _Letter to the Earl of Peterborough: Life, by Lord King_, Vol.
    I. p. 9.

    Malus usus abolendus est.--LAW MAXIM.

    All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to
    you, do ye even so to them; for this is the Law and the
    Prophets.--MATTHEW, viii. 12.

    You have among you many a purchased slave,
    Which, like your asses, and your dogs, and mules,
    You use in abject and in slavish parts,
    Because you bought them.

                                   SHAKESPEARE, _Merchant of Venice_.

    From Guinea’s coast pursue the lessening sail,
    And catch the sounds that sadden every gale.
    Tell, if thou canst, the sum of sorrows there;
    Mark the fixed gaze, the wild and frenzied glare,
    The racks of thought, and freezings of despair!
    But pause not then,--beyond the western wave,
    Go, view the captive bartered as a slave!

                                        ROGERS, _Pleasures of Memory_.

    Through the influence of the late Dr. James W. Stone, an
    indefatigable Republican, a course of lectures was organized in
    Boston especially for the discussion of Slavery. This course
    marks the breaking of the seal on the platform. Mr. Sumner
    undertook to open this course, which was to begin in the week
    after his address before the Mercantile Library Association;
    but he was prevented by sudden disability from a cold. His
    excuse was contained in the following letter.

                           “HANCOCK STREET, 23d November, 1854.

        “MY DEAR SIR,--An unkindly current of air is often more
        penetrating than an arrow. From such a shaft I suffered
        on the night of my address to the Mercantile Library
        Association, more than a week ago, and no care or skill has
        been efficacious to relieve me. I am admonished alike by
        painful consciousness and by the good physician into whose
        hands I have fallen, that I am not equal to the service I
        have undertaken on Thursday evening.

        “Fitly to inaugurate