[Illustration: CHARLES SUMNER] Statesman Edition VOL. I Charles Sumner HIS COMPLETE WORKS With Introduction BY HON. GEORGE FRISBIE HOAR [Illustration] BOSTON LEE AND SHEPARD MCM COPYRIGHT, 1899, BY LEE AND SHEPARD. Statesman Edition. LIMITED TO ONE THOUSAND COPIES. OF WHICH THIS IS No. 565 Norwood Press: NORWOOD, MASS., U.S.A. Believe me still, as I have ever been, The steadfast lover of my fellow-men; My weakness, love of holy liberty; My crime, the wish that all mankind were free: Free, not by blood; redeemed, but not by crime; Each fetter broken, but in God's good time. WHITTIER. NOTE. In this collection the arrangement is strictly chronological. Every article will be found according to its date, without reference to the subject or occasion, thus showing the succession of efforts as they occurred. CONTENTS OF VOLUME 1. PAGE INTRODUCTION. BY HON. GEORGE FRISBIE HOAR vii THE TRUE GRANDEUR OF NATIONS. An Oration before the Authorities of the City of Boston, July 4, 1845 TRIBUTE OF FRIENDSHIP: THE LATE JOSEPH STORY. Article from the Boston Daily Advertiser, September 16, 1845 133 THE WRONG OF SLAVERY. Speech at a Public Meeting in Faneuil Hall, Boston, against the Admission of Texas as a Slave State, November 4, 1845 149 EQUAL RIGHTS IN THE LECTURE-ROOM. Letter to the Committee of the New Bedford Lyceum, November 29, 1845 160 PRISONS AND PRISON DISCIPLINE. Article from the Christian Examiner, January, 1846 163 THE EMPLOYMENT OF TIME. Lecture before the Boston Lyceum, delivered in the Federal Street Theatre, February 18, 1846 184 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THE LATE JOHN PICKERING. Article in the Law Reporter of June, 1846 214 THE SCHOLAR, THE JURIST, THE ARTIST, THE PHILANTHROPIST. An Oration before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Harvard University, at their Anniversary, August 27, 1846 241