THE

WORKS

OF

CHARLES SUMNER.

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

LEIBNITZ.

VOL. II.

BOSTON:

LEE AND SHEPARD.

1870.

シ

HARVARD
UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY
MAR 16 1964

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870, by

CHARLES SUMNER,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the District of Massachusetts.

UNIVERSITY PRESS: WELCH, BIGELOW, & Co.,

CAMBRIDGE.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME II.

PAGE

FAME AND GLORY. Oration before the Literary Societies of Amherst

College, at their Anniversary, August 11, 1847

NECESSITY OF POLITICAL ACTION AGAINST THE SLAVE POWER

AND THE EXTENSION OF SLAVERY. Speech in the Whig State

Convention of Massachusetts, at Springfield, September 29, 1847 55

THE LATE HENRY WHEATON. Article in the Boston Daily Adver-

tiser, March 16, 1848

63

UNION AMONG Men of all PARTIES AGAINST THE SLAVE POWER

AND THE EXTENSION OF SLAVERY. Speech before a Mass Con-

vention at Worcester, June 28, 1848

74

THE LAW OF HUMAN PROGRESS. Oration before the Phi Beta

Kappa Society of Union College, Schenectady, July 25, 1848

THE PARTY OF FREEDOM. Speech on taking the Chair as Presiding

Officer of a Public Meeting to ratify the Nominations of the Buf-

falo Convention, at Faneuil Hall, August 22, 1848

PARTIES, AND IMPORTANCE OF A FREE-SOIL ORGANIZATION. Let-

ter addressed to a Committee of the Free-Soil Party in Boston,

October 26, 1848

APPEAL FOR THE FREE-SOIL PARTY. Address of the State Com-

mittee to the People of Massachusetts, November 9, 1848

89

139

147

164

A LAST RALLY FOR FREEDOM. Letter to the Chairman of the Free-

Soil Meeting at Faneuil Hall, November 9, 1848

168

WAR SYSTEM OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF NATIONS. Address

before the American Peace Society, at its Anniversary Meeting in

the Park Street Church, Boston, May 28, 1849

171