WELCOME TO KOSSUTH. Speech in the Senate, December 10, 1851 171 OUR COUNTRY ON THE SIDE OF FREEDOM, WITHOUT BELLIGERENT INTERVENTION. Letter to a Philadelphia Committee, December 23, 1851 180 CLEMENCY TO POLITICAL OFFENDERS. Letter to an Irish Festival at Washington, January 22, 1852 181 JUSTICE TO THE LAND STATES, AND POLICY OF ROADS. Speeches in the Senate, on the Iowa Railroad Bill, January 27, February 17, and March 16, 1852 182 J. FENIMORE COOPER, THE NOVELIST. Letter to the Rev. Rufus W. Griswold, February 22, 1852 213 CHEAP OCEAN POSTAGE. Speech in the Senate, on a Resolution in Relation to Cheap Ocean Postage, March 8, 1852 215 PARDONING POWER OF THE PRESIDENT. Opinion submitted to the President, May 14, 1852, on the Application for the Pardon of Drayton and Sayres, incarcerated at Washington for helping the Escape of Slaves 219 PRESENTATION OF A MEMORIAL AGAINST THE FUGITIVE SLAVE BILL. Remarks in the Senate, May 26, 1852 234 THE NATIONAL FLAG THE EMBLEM OF UNION FOR FREEDOM. Letter to the Boston Committee for the Celebration of the 4th of July, 1852 238 UNION AGAINST THE SECTIONALISM OF SLAVERY. Letter to a Free-Soil Convention at Worcester, July 6, 1852 240 "STRIKE, BUT HEAR:" ATTEMPT TO DISCUSS THE FUGITIVE SLAVE BILL. Remarks in the Senate, on taking up the Resolution instructing the Committee on the Judiciary to report a Bill for Immediate Repeal of the Fugitive Slave Act, July 27 and 28, 1852 243 TRIBUTE TO ROBERT RANTOUL, JR. Speech in the Senate, on the Death of Hon. Robert Rantoul, Jr., August 9, 1852 246 AUTHORSHIP OF THE ORDINANCE OF FREEDOM IN THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. Letter to Hon. Edward Coles, August 23, 1852 253 FREEDOM NATIONAL, SLAVERY SECTIONAL. Speech in the Senate, on a Motion to repeal the Fugitive Slave Act, August 26, 1852 257 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. 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. BOSTON, July 6, 1849. Gentlemen,--I wish I could join the freemen of the Reserve in celebrating the anniversary of the great Ordinance of Freedom; but engagements detain me at home.