THE REPRESENTATIVE SYSTEM, AND ITS PROPER BASIS. Speech on the Proposition to amend the Basis of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts, in the Convention to revise and amend the Constitution of that State, July 7, 1853 33 BILLS OF RIGHTS: THEIR HISTORY AND POLICY. Speech on the Report from the Committee on the Bill of Rights, in the Convention to revise and amend the Constitution of Massachusetts, July 25, 1853 62 FINGER-POINT FROM PLYMOUTH ROCK. Speech at the Plymouth Festival in Commemoration of the Embarkation of the Pilgrims, August 1, 1853 73 IRELAND AND IRISHMEN. Letter to a Committee of Irish-born Citizens, August 2, 1853 80 THE LANDMARK OF FREEDOM: NO REPEAL OF THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE. Speech in the Senate, against the Repeal of the Missouri Prohibition of Slavery north of 36° 30´ in the Nebraska and Kansas Bill, February 21, 1854 81 WHEN WILL THE NORTH BE AROUSED? Letter to a Personal Friend, March 30, 1854 137 A LIBERTY-LOVING EMIGRATION TO GUARD KANSAS. Letter to a Massachusetts Committee, May 1, 1854 138 FINAL PROTEST, FOR HIMSELF AND THE CLERGY OF NEW ENGLAND, AGAINST SLAVERY IN NEBRASKA AND KANSAS. Speech in the Senate, on the Night of the Final Passage of the Nebraska and Kansas Bill, May 25, 1854 140 UNION OF ALL PARTIES NECESSARY AGAINST THE SLAVE POWER. Letter to a Massachusetts Committee, May 29, 1854 157 BOSTON PETITION FOR THE REPEAL OF THE FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT. Speech in the Senate, on the Boston Petition for the Repeal of the Fugitive Slave Act, June 26, 1854 159 REPLY TO ASSAILANTS: OATH TO SUPPORT THE CONSTITUTION; WEAKNESS OF THE SOUTH FROM SLAVERY. Second Speech in the Senate on the Boston Petition for the Repeal of the Fugitive Slave Act, June 28, 1854 172 PEACEFUL OPPOSITION TO THE FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT. Letter to the Mayor of Boston, for the Celebration of July 4, 1854 228 NO PENSION FOR SERVICE IN SUPPORT OF THE FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT. Minority Report to the Senate of the United States, on the Bill granting to the Widow of James Batchelder a Provision for her Future Support, July 13, 1854 230 JAMES OTIS AN EXAMPLE TO MASSACHUSETTS. Letter to the Cape Cod Association of Massachusetts, July 30, 1854 237 STRUGGLE FOR REPEAL OF THE FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT. Debate in the Senate, July 31, 1854 239