Let me not be misunderstood. I have said that this ten per cent proposition, if adopted, will give your tariff a bad name among those who are disposed to criticise it, and especially with foreign countries. Was I not right? Is it not true? Willingly I take the censure of the Senator, while I strive at this moment to secure for my country sympathy from every quarter, even from foreign nations; nor shall I be disturbed by anything which fell from the Senator. I am accustomed to criticism in this body. And I beg to say that I shrink from no responsibility which belongs to my position. If duty requires that foreign nations should be encountered by a policy harassing to their industry, I shall take my full share of this grave responsibility; but until I see the path of duty in that direction, I hope that I may be pardoned, if I prefer a policy doubly commended as most beneficial to us and least hurtful to them. I am unwilling that my country at this moment should pursue a shadow, and in the end find that it has gained nothing but ill-will. Strong as we are, we cannot afford to augment the odium created by our late tariff. Better husband our resources,--among which I place the sympathies of the civilized world, and of those laboring classes whose industry must suffer by your act, without, I fear, any corresponding benefit to us. The amendment of Mr. Sumner was lost. EMANCIPATION OUR BEST WEAPON. SPEECH BEFORE THE REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION AT WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, OCTOBER 1, 1861. WITH APPENDIX. Therefore take heed … How you awake _the sleeping sword of war_: We charge you, in the name of God, take heed! SHAKESPEARE, _King Henry V._, Act I. Scene 2. So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the LAW OF LIBERTY.--_Epistle of James_, ii. 12. This speech, at the time of its delivery, was entitled in some quarters “Emancipation the Cure of the Rebellion,” which certainly showed an appreciation of its meaning. In the pamphlet edition another title was adopted, argumentative in form, and intended to suggest the same conclusion,--“Union and Peace, how they shall be restored.” It was made at the annual State Convention of the Republican party of Massachusetts. The Convention was called to order by Hon. William Claflin, Chairman of the Republican State Committee. Its permanent organization was as follows. President,--Hon. Henry L. Dawes, of North Adams.