[Illustration: WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON] Statesman Edition Vol. XII Charles Sumner HIS COMPLETE WORKS With Introduction BY HON. GEORGE FRISBIE HOAR [Illustration] BOSTON LEE AND SHEPARD MCM COPYRIGHT, 1874, BY CHARLES SUMNER. COPYRIGHT, 1900, BY LEE AND SHEPARD. Statesman Edition. LIMITED TO ONE THOUSAND COPIES. OF WHICH THIS IS No. 259 Norwood Press: NORWOOD, MASS., U.S.A. CONTENTS OF VOLUME XII. PAGE CONGRATULATIONS ON THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. Speech at a Public Meeting at Faneuil Hall, Boston, November 8, 1864 1 JUBILEE OF LIBERTY. Letter to the Young Men’s Republican Union of New York, November 10, 1864 5 MR. ASHLEY AND RECONSTRUCTION. Letter to a Public Banquet in Honor of Hon. James M. Ashley, at Toledo, Ohio, November 18, 1864 7 CASE OF THE FLORIDA: ILLUSTRATED BY PRECEDENTS OF BRITISH SEIZURES IN NEUTRAL WATERS. Articles in the Boston Daily Advertiser, November 29, 1864, and January 17, 1865 9 RELATIONS WITH GREAT BRITAIN: THE ST. ALBANS RAID. Speech in the Senate, on a Bill for Fortifications and Batteries on the Lakes, December 19, 1864 42 TERMINATION OF THE CANADIAN RECIPROCITY TREATY. Speeches in the Senate, on the Joint Resolution giving Notice for the Termination of the Canadian Reciprocity Treaty, December 21, 1864, January 11 and 12, 1865 46 THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION AND EQUAL RIGHTS. Letter to a Public Meeting in Philadelphia, December 26, 1864 60 FREEDOM OF WIVES AND CHILDREN OF COLORED SOLDIERS. Speech in the Senate, on a Joint Resolution for this Purpose, January 5, 1865 61 MASSACRE OF THE CHEYENNE INDIANS. Remarks in the Senate, on a Joint Resolution relating thereto, January 13, 1865 66 THE LATE HON. EDWARD EVERETT. Telegraphic Despatch to Joint Committee of the Legislature of Massachusetts, January 16, 1865 68