TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE: The tombstone inscriptions on pages 90, 91 and 93 contain elements not possible to reproduce in this plain text version: superscripted letters, and horizontal lines above text indicating the omission of one or more letters. The former is represented by a caret followed by curly braces around the superscripted letter(s) (e.g. ESQ^{R}) and the latter by enclosing the annotated letter(s), with an equals sign preceding, in square brackets (e.g. D[=N]I). [Illustration: ABRAHAM LINCOLN Copyright by M. P. Rice, Wash. D.C., 1891 Elson, Boston] Statesman Edition VOL. VI Charles Sumner HIS COMPLETE WORKS With Introduction BY HON. GEORGE FRISBIE HOAR [Illustration] BOSTON LEE AND SHEPARD MCM COPYRIGHT, 1872, BY CHARLES SUMNER. COPYRIGHT, 1900, BY LEE AND SHEPARD. Statesman Edition. LIMITED TO ONE THOUSAND COPIES. OF WHICH THIS IS No. 565 Norwood Press: NORWOOD, MASS., U.S.A. CONTENTS OF VOLUME VII. PAGE THE UNCONSTITUTIONALITY OF SLAVERY SHOWN FROM ITS BARBARISM. Letter to a Political Antislavery Convention at Worcester, Massachusetts, September 9, 1860 1 THE FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT MUST BE A DEAD LETTER. Letter to a Public Meeting at Syracuse, New York, September 9, 1860 3 EXAMPLE OF MASSACHUSETTS AGAINST SLAVERY. Speech at a Mass Meeting of Republicans, in the Open Air, at Myrick’s Station, Massachusetts, September 18, 1860 5 CONTRIBUTIONS OF SCHOOLS FOR STATUE OF HORACE MANN. Letter to the Agent for receiving Contributions, September 19, 1860 20 REMINISCENCE OF THE LATE THEODORE PARKER. Remarks at the Annual Opening of the Fraternity Lectures of Boston, October 1, 1860 22 THREAT OF DISUNION BY THE SLAVE STATES, AND ITS ABSURDITY. Speech at a Mass Meeting of Republicans, in the Open Air, at Framingham, Massachusetts, October 11, 1860 25 NO POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY IN TERRITORIES CAN ESTABLISH SLAVERY. Speech in the Mechanics’ Hall, Worcester, November 1, 1860 41 EVENING BEFORE THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. Speech at Faneuil Hall, Boston, November 5, 1860 70 EVENING AFTER THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. Speech to the Wide-Awakes of Concord, Massachusetts, November 7, 1860 76