[Illustration: CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS] Statesman Edition VOL. II 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 II. PAGE WHITE SLAVERY IN THE BARBARY STATES. A Lecture before the Boston Mercantile Library Association, February 17, 1847 1 RIVAL SYSTEMS OF PRISON DISCIPLINE. Speech before the Boston Prison Discipline Society, at Tremont Temple, June 18, 1847 104 THE LATE JOSEPH LEWIS STACKPOLE, ESQ. Article in the Boston Daily Advertiser, July 23, 1847 151 FAME AND GLORY. Oration before the Literary Societies of Amherst College, at their Anniversary, August 11, 1847 153 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 207 THE LATE HENRY WHEATON. Article in the Boston Daily Advertiser, March 16, 1848 215 UNION AMONG MEN OF ALL PARTIES AGAINST THE SLAVE POWER AND THE EXTENSION OF SLAVERY. Speech before a Mass Convention at Worcester, June 28, 1848 226 THE LAW OF HUMAN PROGRESS. Oration before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Union College, Schenectady, July 25, 1848 241 THE PARTY OF FREEDOM. Speech on taking the Chair as Presiding Officer of a Public Meeting to ratify the Nominations of the Buffalo Convention, at Faneuil Hall, August 22, 1848 291 PARTIES, AND IMPORTANCE OF A FREE-SOIL ORGANIZATION. Letter addressed to a Committee of the Free-Soil Party in Boston, October 20, 1848 299 APPEAL FOR THE FREE-SOIL PARTY. Address of the State Committee to the People of Massachusetts, November 9, 1843 316 A LAST RALLY FOR FREEDOM. Letter to the Chairman of the Free-Soil Meeting at Faneuil Hall, November 9, 1848 320 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 323 WHITE SLAVERY IN THE BARBARY STATES. A LECTURE BEFORE THE BOSTON MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, FEBRUARY 17, 1847.