SAFETY OF PASSENGERS IN STEAMSHIPS FOR CALIFORNIA. Resolution and Remarks in the Senate, May 21, 1860 109 CANDIDATES WHO ARE A PLATFORM. Letter to a Ratification Meeting at Buffalo, New York, May 30, 1860 111 THE BARBARISM OF SLAVERY. Speech in the Senate, on Bill for Admission of Kansas as a Free State, June 4, 1860 113 A VICTORY OF PRINCIPLE IN THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. Letter to a Public Meeting at Middleborough, Massachusetts, June 11, 1860 287 REFUSAL TO COLORED PERSONS OF RIGHT OF PETITION. Notes of Undelivered Speech in the Senate, on Resolution refusing to receive Petition from Citizens of Massachusetts of African Descent, June 15, 1860 288 THE LATE HONORABLE JOHN SCHWARTZ, OF PENNSYLVANIA. Speech in the Senate, on Resolutions in Tribute to him, June 21, 1860 300 UNHESITATING ASSERTION OF OUR PRINCIPLES. Letter to the Republicans of New York City, June 27, 1860 302 THE REPUBLICAN PARTY: ITS ORIGIN, NECESSITY, AND PERMANENCE. Speech before the Young Men’s Republican Union of New York, at Cooper Institute, July 11, 1860 303 OUR CANDIDATES WILL BE ELECTED. Letter to the Lincoln and Hamlin Club of Owego, New York, July 30, 1860 342 EMANCIPATION IN THE BRITISH WEST INDIES A BLESSING, AND NOT A FAILURE. Letter to a Public Meeting at Framingham, Massachusetts, July 30, 1860 343 SLAVERY A BARBAROUS DISEASE TO BE STAYED. Letter to a Republican Meeting at the Dedication of the Republican Wigwam in New York, August 6, 1860 346 TRIBUTE TO A COLLEGE CLASSMATE. Remarks on the Late John W. Browne, August 20, 1860 348 PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES AND THE ISSUES. Speech at the State Convention of the Republican Party at Worcester, August 29, 1860 352 APPEAL FOR THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES. LETTER TO THE REPUBLICAN COMMITTEE AT BOSTON, JUNE 21, 1856. The selection of a Republican candidate for the Presidency gave rise to the customary discussion in the newspapers, in the course of which the _New York Tribune_, under date of June 6, 1856, expressed itself as follows.