JOY AND SORROW IN THE RECENT ELECTION. Letter to the Wide-Awakes of Boston, at their Festival, after Election, November 9, 1860 80 THE VICTORY AND PRESENT DUTIES. Speech to the Wide-Awakes, at Providence, Rhode Island, November 16, 1860 82 MODERATION IN VICTORY; STANDING BY OUR PRINCIPLES. Speech to the Wide-Awakes of Lowell, November 21, 1860 86 MEMORIAL STONES OF THE WASHINGTONS IN ENGLAND. Letter to Jared Sparks, Historian of Washington, November 22, 1860. From the Boston Daily Advertiser 89 LAFAYETTE, THE FAITHFUL ONE. Address at the Cooper Institute, New York, November 30, 1860 101 DISUNION AND A SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY: THE OBJECT. Remarks in the Senate, December 10, 1860 165 ATTEMPT AT COMPROMISE: THE CRITTENDEN PROPOSITIONS. Incidents and Notes, December 18, 1860, to March 4, 1861 169 ANXIETIES AND PROSPECTS DURING THE WINTER. Letters to John A. Andrew, Governor of Massachusetts, January 17 to February 20, 1861 186 NO SURRENDER OF THE NORTHERN FORTS. Speech in the Senate, on a Massachusetts Petition in Favor of the Crittenden Propositions, February 12, 1861 200 DUTY AND STRENGTH OF THE COMING ADMINISTRATION. From Notes of Undelivered Speech on the Various Propositions of Compromise, February, 1861 213 FOREIGN RELATIONS: ARBITRATION. Report from Committee on Foreign Relations, advising the President to submit the San Juan Boundary Question to Arbitration, in the Senate, March 19, 1861 216 BEGINNING OF THE CONFLICT. Speech before the Third Massachusetts Rifles, in the Armory at New York, April 21, 1861 224 PASSPORTS FOR COLORED CITIZENS. Note to the Secretary of State, June 27, 1861 229 OBJECT OF THE WAR. Proceedings in the Senate, on the Crittenden Resolution declaring the Object of the War, July 24 and 25, 1861 231 SYMPATHIES OF THE CIVILIZED WORLD NOT TO BE REPELLED. Speech in the Senate, against Increase of Ten Per Cent on all Foreign Duties, July 29, 1861 234 EMANCIPATION OUR BEST WEAPON. Speech before the Republican State Convention at Worcester, Massachusetts, October 1, 1861. With Appendix 241