THE CRIME AGAINST KANSAS: THE APOLOGIES FOR THE CRIME; THE TRUE REMEDY. Speech in the Senate, May 19 and 20, 1856. With Appendix 125 “WHATEVER MASSACHUSETTS CAN GIVE, LET IT ALL GO TO SUFFERING KANSAS.” Telegraphic Despatch to Boston, June 6, 1856 343 REFUSAL TO RECEIVE TESTIMONIAL IN APPROBATION OF KANSAS SPEECH. Letter to a Committee in Boston, June 13, 1856 344 THE ANTISLAVERY ENTERPRISE: ITS NECESSITY, PRACTICABILITY, AND DIGNITY; WITH GLANCES AT THE SPECIAL DUTIES OF THE NORTH. ADDRESS BEFORE THE PEOPLE OF NEW YORK, AT THE METROPOLITAN THEATRE, MAY 9, 1855. The principles of true politics are those of morality enlarged; and I neither now do nor ever will admit of any other.--BURKE, _Letter to the Bishop of Chester: Correspondence_, Vol. I. p. 332. True politics I look on as a part of moral philosophy, which is nothing but the art of conducting men right in society, and supporting a community amongst its neighbors.--JOHN LOCKE, _Letter to the Earl of Peterborough: Life, by Lord King_, Vol. I. p. 9. Malus usus abolendus est.--LAW MAXIM. All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them; for this is the Law and the Prophets.--MATTHEW, viii. 12. You have among you many a purchased slave, Which, like your asses, and your dogs, and mules, You use in abject and in slavish parts, Because you bought them. SHAKESPEARE, _Merchant of Venice_. From Guinea’s coast pursue the lessening sail, And catch the sounds that sadden every gale. Tell, if thou canst, the sum of sorrows there; Mark the fixed gaze, the wild and frenzied glare, The racks of thought, and freezings of despair! But pause not then,--beyond the western wave, Go, view the captive bartered as a slave! ROGERS, _Pleasures of Memory_. Through the influence of the late Dr. James W. Stone, an indefatigable Republican, a course of lectures was organized in Boston especially for the discussion of Slavery. This course marks the breaking of the seal on the platform. Mr. Sumner undertook to open this course, which was to begin in the week after his address before the Mercantile Library Association; but he was prevented by sudden disability from a cold. His excuse was contained in the following letter. “HANCOCK STREET, 23d November, 1854.