Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustration. See 45637-h.htm or 45637-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/45637/45637-h/45637-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/45637/45637-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/completeworks03sumnuoft Illustration: ROBERT C. WINTHROP Statesman Edition VOL. III 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 III. PAGE BE TRUE TO THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. Letter to a Public Meeting in Ohio, on the Anniversary of the Ordinance of Freedom, July 6, 1849 1 WHERE LIBERTY IS, THERE IS MY PARTY. Speech on calling the Free-Soil State Convention to Order, at Worcester, September 12, 1849 4 THE FREE-SOIL PARTY EXPLAINED AND VINDICATED. Address to the People of Massachusetts, reported to and adopted by the Free-Soil State Convention at Worcester, September 12, 1849 6 WASHINGTON AN ABOLITIONIST. Letter to the Boston Daily Atlas, September 27, 1849 46 EQUALITY BEFORE THE LAW: UNCONSTITUTIONALITY OF SEPARATE COLORED SCHOOLS IN MASSACHUSETTS. Argument before the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, in the Case of Sarah C. Roberts _v._ The City of Boston, December 4, 1849 51 CHARACTER AND HISTORY OF THE LAW SCHOOL OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY. Report of the Committee of Overseers, February 7, 1850 101 STIPULATED ARBITRATION, OR A CONGRESS OF NATIONS, WITH DISARMAMENT. Address to the People of the United States, February 22, 1850 117 OUR IMMEDIATE ANTISLAVERY DUTIES. Speech at a Free-Soil Meeting at Faneuil Hall, November 6, 1850 122 ACCEPTANCE OF THE OFFICE OF SENATOR OF THE UNITED STATES. Letter to the Legislature of Massachusetts, May 14, 1851 149 THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE AND THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OUR TWO TITLE-DEEDS. Letter to the Mayor of Boston, for July 4, 1851 165 POSITION OF THE AMERICAN LAWYER. Letter to the Secretary of the Story Association, July 15, 1851 166 SYMPATHY WITH THE RIGHTS OF MAN EVERYWHERE. Letter to a meeting at Faneuil Hall, October 27, 1851 168