LET MASSACHUSETTS HELP KANSAS. Letter to James Redpath, Esq., January 10, 1857 44 ACCEPTANCE OF SENATORSHIP, ON REËLECTION. Letter to the Legislature of Massachusetts, January 22, 1857 46 GRATITUDE FOR SYMPATHY OF THE PEOPLE OF VERMONT. Letter to Hon. Ryland Fletcher, Governor of Vermont, March 7, 1857 52 A LAST WORD FOR KANSAS, ON SAILING FOR EUROPE. Letter to James Redpath, Esq., March 7, 1857 54 INVITATION TO DINNER BY AMERICAN MERCHANTS IN PARIS. Letter to the American Merchants at Paris, April 20, 1857 56 OUR POLITICS SEEN FROM A DISTANCE. Letter to a Friend, dated Heidelberg, September 11, 1857 60 FAREWELL ON SAILING FOR EUROPE A SECOND TIME IN QUEST OF HEALTH. Letter to the People of Massachusetts, on Board Steamer Vanderbilt, New York Harbor, May 22, 1858 62 HONOR TO THE INVENTOR OF THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. Letter to Professor Morse, in excusing himself from a Dinner at Paris, August 17, 1858 64 LONGING FOR DUTIES OF POSITION. From a Letter to a Friend, dated at Aix, Savoy, September 11, 1858 65 INDEPENDENCE AND UNITY OF ITALY. Letter to a Public Meeting at New York, February 17, 1860 67 TWO LESSONS FROM THE LIFE OF WASHINGTON. Letter to the Washington Monument Association of the First School District of Philadelphia, February 21, 1860 70 MACAULAY ON SLAVERY. Communication to the New York Tribune, March 3, 1860 71 STATUE OF HORACE MANN. Letter to Dr. Samuel G. Howe, March 5, 1860 78 USURPATION OF THE SENATE IN IMPRISONING A CITIZEN. Two Speeches, on the Imprisonment of Thaddeus Hyatt for refusing to testify in the Harper’s Ferry Investigation, in the Senate, March 12, and June 15, 1860 80 ABOLITION OF CUSTOM-HOUSE OATHS. Resolution in the Senate, March 15, 1860 95 BOSTON COMMON, AND ITS EXTENSION. Letter to George H. Snelling, Esq., of Boston, March 26, 1860 96 ATTEMPT TO KIDNAP A CITIZEN UNDER ORDER OF THE SENATE. The Case of Frank B. Sanborn, of Concord, Massachusetts, with Speeches in the Senate, April 10, 13, and 16, 1860 99 PETITIONS AGAINST SLAVERY. Speech in the Senate, April 18, 1860 106